Police carry the piece of debris found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. The two-metre-long piece of wing was later confirmed to be from MH370.

The ongoing conspiracy theories surrounding missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 bring only more pain to those left behind. 

The Boeing aircraft carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared on March 8, 2014. Delayed responses from the Malaysian government and repeated false leads have fuelled speculation about what happened. 

One early theory detailed how the plane was abducted by aliens. Then there was rampant speculation it had landed on the planet Mars. This is the kind of nonsense families put up with.

A map showing Reunion Island, where MH370 debris was found, and Tawi-Tawi, where a woman claimed she saw a plane wreckage containing human remains and a Malaysian flag.

Recent reports include a woman in the Philippines coming across the wreckage of a crashed plane containing a Malaysian flag and "many human skeletons" as she hunted for birds in a remote island in the Tawi-Tawi province.

According to police commissioner Jalaludin Abdul Rahman in nearby Borneo, the woman said she climbed into the smashed fuselage and saw skeletons.  

However, when a naval task force landed in the area, locals said they had no knowledge of the supposed wreckage. 

Philippine police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said there was unlikely to be any truth to the claims.

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Not only do the claims not tally with the area where the aircraft is presumed to have crashed, there is no way debris could have travelled from that location to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where a piece of wing discovered has been confirmed as debris from MH370. There are simply too many land masses in the way, The Telegraph reported.

Janie Barret

Danica Weeks, whose husband was aboard the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

Danica Weeks, the wife of flight MH370 victim Paul Weeks, did not want to comment on the latest claims, saying it was "another wild goose chase" and just as unhelpful as all the other theories. 

She now lives on Australia's Sunshine Coast with her sons, Lincoln and Jack. 

Far from providing closure, discovery of the flaperon reset the grieving process for victims' families and friends.

The uncertainties in the case meant all involved would suffer "unresolved grief", Sarb Johal, associate professor in disaster mental health at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University/GNS Science, said at the time. 

It was unlikely the mystery would ever come to a "satisfactory resolution" for those left behind, he said.

 - Stuff