Residents of Reunion Island, where the wreckage of a Boeing 777 believed to have disappeared in March 2014 was found, saw the wreckage of the plane back in May. But then they didn’t attach any importance to it

The wreckage of the Boeing 777, which allegedly disappeared in March 2014, washed ashore on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean three months ago. newspaper writes about this The Telegraph , citing local residents of the island who, back in May, saw objects on the shore similar to the wreckage of the liner.

In particular, one of the publication’s interlocutors, Nicolas Ferrier, who is engaged in collecting garbage on the abandoned shores of the eastern part of Reunion Island, said that back in May he came across a blue chair. According to him, then he thought that it could be a bus seat or a hang glider. “Only on Wednesday [after the discovery of part of the wing on the island] did it dawn on me what I had actually seen then. That, most likely, it was a seat from that plane,” the publication quotes him as saying.

The interlocutor also said that around the same time he found several suitcases with things. According to him, he then burned all the finds, as he usually does with all the garbage he collects on the shore. “That's my job. I collect garbage and burn it,” Ferrier explained. “I may have found a lot of items from that liner back then, but I burned them all without knowing it,” he admitted.

Ferrier said he also saw a piece of the plane's wing that was found this week. “I even sat on it. But I didn’t pay attention to it until I saw it on the news,” the garbage man said.

Another local resident also confirmed that she saw objects similar to airplane debris in this area of the island. She said that she was walking along the beach with her son in early May and he drew her attention to an object that looked like a piece of an airplane wing, as well as two suitcases. Then the woman also did not attach any importance to this and remembered what she saw only after it became widely known about the found wreckage of the Boeing 777.

on the shores of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean On Wednesday, July 29, a piece of unidentified aircraft was found . Malaysian authorities later reported that the serial number on it indicates that it is from a Boeing 777. Now experts have to establish whether the found fragment belongs to the plane that flew Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and disappeared on March 8, 2014 over the Indian Ocean.

There were 239 people on board the plane, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. According to investigators, he suddenly cut off communication with the outside world, after which he changed course and flew west. The plane has still not been found.

The wreckage of a Boeing 777 washed up on the shores of Reunion three months ago.