Malaysia Airlines towelette discovered on beach in Western Australia

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Authorities involved in the search for MH370 are investigating a packaged Malaysia Airlines moist towelette that washed up on a Western Australia beach last year

Retirees Kingsley and Vicki Miller were walking along a beach in the town of Cervantes on July 2, 2014, when they noticed the small item in the sand, Nine News reported.

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The couple, believing the find could be related to missing flight, told Nine News on Tuesday that they sent the package to police, who handed it over to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in Canberra, the agency coordinating the search



Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared from the radar en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China on March 8, 2014. The passenger jet had 239 people on board and vanished without a trace. An international search — a joint effort between Malaysia and Australia — has been ongoing ever since. Read more...

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