"I knew immediately it was part of an aircraft, but I didn't realize how important it was, that it could help to solve the mystery of what happened to the Malaysian jet," he told the Associated Press.
"I was walking on the beach, looking for stones that are used to grind spices, and there it was. It was very big, you couldn't miss it.
"At first we didn't know what it was. But now I understand. I am proud that Reunion is known for this big event."
Johnny Begue, a member of a local shore cleaning association in Saint-Andre, La Reunion
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A French law enforcement helicopter is scouring the waters around Reunio
some may recall another flight that ended tragically in the same waters.
On the evening of Nov. 27, 1987, the crew of South African Airways Flight 295 radioed air traffic control to alert them about smoke on the flight deck.
the aircraft plummeted into the dark waters of the Indian Ocean with 159 souls on board.
Nearly three decades after its demise, the challenges of the recovery and investigation
So it's no surprise a large portion of the aircraft's wreckage, including the flight data recorder, was never recovered. It took two years to find the cockpit voice recorder, 16,100 feet down.
