Malaysia’s MH370 disappearance created one of the greatest mysteries in modern aviation history.

From the start not even the ‘Inmarsat ping’ proponents could conclusively brush off other alternative paths that otherwise could have been.

However, based on those satellite pings an official path was steadfastly taken, resulting in an Australian led team scouring the deep southern end of the Indian Ocean.

When the French authorities confirmed a flapperon found on Reunion Island belonged to H370,many observers expected the search team to also search extensively not just the areas around La Reunion but also the area north of the La Reunion since the debris could have travelled straight down from above.

Very interestingly, the Maldives atolls did feature in the early days of March 2014 when on March 19, 2014, a local newspaper reported that a Maldives daily, Haveeru, had a day earlier reported that the residents of the Kudahuvadhoo atoll claimed seeing a white with red stripes low-flying jumbo jet on the morning of March 8, 2014.

The plane was said to be coming from the direction of Hulhule Island and going very low atop Kudahuvadhoo island and going towards Addu Island further south, past the Equator.

The residents said that the extremely noisy plane flew so low that they could see the exit doors.

Now, surely this requires our attention whatever the initial official response has been, including the very much heard ‘drift modelling’ of the currently pursued southern Indian ocean trajectory.

Lately, another possible plane part was found on a sandbank in Mozambique, which the authorities have retrieved for inspection.

La Reunion Island and the Mozambique sandbank only lie just further south-west of the Maldives islands and quite possibly the area between and above both is where the MH370 mystery may eventually be solved.

The families and friends of those now lost need every other alternative site of very possible discovery sincerely explored thoroughly by the search team.