Search Expanded for Malaysian MH370 Airliner Debris

France is deploying a search plane, helicopter and boats around the Indian Ocean island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris from the missing MH370 Malaysian airliner. The authorities on the neighbouring islands of Mauritius and Madagascar have also been requested to comb their coastlines for debris.

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Photo: Police officers inspect metallic debris found on a beach in Saint-Denis on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on August 2, 2015, close to where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to missing flight MH370 washed up last week. Credit: Richard Bouchet/AFP/Getty Images