Some Now Saying 'Broken-Hearted' Pilot May Have Intentionally Flown The 777 Into The Ocean

Five new pieces of wreckage that are possibly from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 were discovered last week off the coast of Madagascar, and investigators say some of the debris appears to have been damaged by fire.

The latest debris was found near Sainte Luce in south-eastern Madagascar, by three residents, and turned over to Blaine Gibson, an American attorney who has independently spent the past year looking for answers to the mystery of the vanished airliner.

The U.K. newspaper The Week reports that, according to NEWS.au, two of the pieces appear to be "scorched black". If they are confirmed to be from MH370, it may indicate there was a fire onboard the Boeing 777 before it went down.

But Australia's 7 News reports that tests on aircraft parts recovered off the coast of Tanzania support a theory that the airplane was deliberately flown into the ocean at a high rate of speed. Investigators determined that the wing flap that was recently discovered was not deployed at the time it was separated from the airplane, which would rule out a controlled ditching into the ocean.

The U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail reports that there have been reports that the pilot of MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had allegedly been "heartbroken" over a failed relationship when the airliner went missing. He had reportedly been messaging a married friend about a "personal matter" just two days before the disappeared from radar, and it is also thought that he had separated from his wife, thought they still "lived under the same roof" in Kuala Lumpur, according to the report.

(Image from file. Not most recent debris found)

FMI: www.atsb.gov.au/mh370