SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO MH370!!

Well yes.....and no.

It began on 29 July 2015 when something that looked like an aeroplane wing - identified as a flaperon floated ashore on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

People immediately started theorising that this could be a flap from the missing MH370 Boeing 777 that disappeared in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean last June as it headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, vanishing an hour into the flight. The only other piece of evidence was a plastic bottle with a brand name on that came from China. The brand is not sold on Reunion and most of the passengers were Chinese. Pretty flimsy evidence, you have to agree. The flaperon could have come from any Boeing 777, not necessarily that plane. And the bottle could have come from....well, just about anywhere.

People were determined to find anything else that may finally shed some light on this bizarre incident. So they scoured the beach. The Malaysians asked people on other islands in the area to keep an eye out for bits and bobs as well.

Of course, most of the junk on the beaches of Reunion Island is exactly that - junk. Probably from people throwing things out of boats, or broken bits from ones that have capsized etc, etc.

Also tide, weather...? All could have carried this flaperon miles away from where it originally came from. Also there was the Boxing Day Tsunami to consider. Debris from that is probably still floating about all over the place.

The Malaysians are absolutely convinced that the flaperon is from MH370 and have even made an announcement to that effect, with the PM saying it is "conclusively" from the plane.

Good news, right?

Well, unfortunately not.

The wing has been taken to a laboratory in Toulouse, for analysis and the scientists there don't seem convinced. At first they said it was, and then they decided that they weren't so sure. There are also rumours of the Malaysians saying a plane window and a seat cushion from the plane have also been found on Reunion. However, the French and Australians say this is untrue. As these are just that - rumours - we will leave that there for now.

The thing is no-one is any closer to knowing where, how, or why #MH370 crashed and if any of this so-called junk is even from this plane.

This is having a terrible toll on the families of the victims. They are already grief-stricken and want only to know what happened to their loved ones. To be given hope by being told the parts are from MH370 and then having someone else deny this is just cruel.

Someone needs to tell these poor relatives one way or the other. Their grief is bad enough without this discordant information (forgive me) floating about. Either it is the missing plane or it isn't.

The only thing that can really tell us anything are the two black boxes that are still somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

It appears this mystery is going to remain a mystery for now.

The mystery of #MH370 remains unsolved