Flight MH370: New debris found in Madagascar and Australia

Debris found in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is being investigated to see if it came from the missing plane.

Flight MH370 vanished more than two years ago during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Officials said Blaine Gibson, an American adventurer who has been hunting for Flight MH370 over the past year, contacted the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) to report he found debris in Madagascar.

Mr Gibson also found debris in February that experts later determined came from the airliner.

Malaysian authorities are leading the investigation and have procedures in place to examine any suspected debris, although Australia will help analyse Mr Gibson's discovery, if required.

Separately, an Australian man has found a piece of debris - also believed to be part of the missing plane - on an island off southern Australia.

Dan O'Malley, an ATSB spokesman, said the debris was found on Kangaroo Island and will be examined by the transport bureau.

Several pieces of the plane have washed up over the past year on coastlines around the Indian Ocean.

But officials have had no luck finding the main underwater wreckage despite an extensive search of a vast area of the Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast.

Crews are expected to complete their sweep of the 46,000 square mile area by August, and there are no plans to extend the hunt beyond that.