By Staff Reporter (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Aug 02, 2015 06:20 AM EDT

A new lead in solving the mystery of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has turned up in the shore of Reunion Island where a plane's wing was previously recovered. On Thursday, a portion of a suitcase, believed to be owned by one of the passengers aboard the doomed MH370, was sent to the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie in Pointoise, northwest of Paris.

Speaking with NBC News, a spokesperson for the National Gendarmerie said authorities will try to recover DNA samples from the suitcase. The samples will then be matched to those of the relatives of the passengers who went missing with flight MH370 on March 8, 2014.

Meanwhile, the plane's flaperon which was first discovered on the island has reached a laboratory in France. Aviation experts have converged in the laboratory in order to analyze the debris, NBC News reported.

More remains from the missing plane, such as luggage and the plane's seat cushions, have already washed up on the island. Unfortunately, residents on the island have either thrown them back at sea or burnt them.

According to an in-depth report from The Telegraph, the Reunion Island is located 400 miles east of Madagascar. There are only 850,000 people living on the island who worked as farmers in the region's sugar cane plantation. The sleepy town will never be interested to things that they will find from the shore.

Speaking with The Telegraph, resident Nicolas Ferrier said that he already saw the plane's wing at one point before the authorities came to the island. In fact, he remembered seeing the debris in May.

"I sat on it. I was fishing for macabi (bonefish) and used it as a table. I really didn't pay it much attention - until I saw it on the news," Mr. Ferrier said.

He also saw a blue seat and luggage but was never interested. "I found a couple of suitcases too, around the same time, full of things," he said. Asked what he did with the stuff he found, he said, "I burnt them."

Mr. Ferrier said he never watch television or listen to the radio. Hence, he was clueless that the things he discovered and burnt could actually be significant in solving a big mystery. He said he only became aware about MH370 now that the island is getting attention because of it.

"Malaysia Airlines is a bit like bin Laden. No one had ever heard of it - then suddenly we talk about nothing else," he said.  

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