According to The Guardian, US independent investigator, Blaine Gibson, has previously found airplane debris before, but this time around, he again found several parts on beaches in Madagascar which he thought to be from the missing Malaysian aircraft, MH370.

Five pieces of airplane parts were found and two of them reportedly appeared to be burnt. Gibson said he had notified the Malaysian and Australian authorities regarding this but the parts were still not collected by Malaysia, which will require an analysis if said parts were really from the missing plane.

According to reports from NEWS.au, "If confirmed to have come from the plane, it will be the first evidence that a fire - possibly an electrical one - brought down MH370 rather than the actions of a suicidal pilot."

It has been more than a year since Gibson has been investigating the plane's disappearance and he reportedly found several pieces of debris on beaches bordering the Indian Ocean. He had delivered five separate parts for analysis at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in Canberra, according to reports.

Gibson said, "I brought it myself this time because I was coming to Australia and because the Madagascar authorities have been waiting for three months for them to pick the other pieces up."

The Malaysian aircraft have been missing since March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 passengers on board. Official reports regarding the reason behind the aircraft's disappearance have not been announced yet.

The private investigator said in a statement from BBC, that he was touched by the plight of the families. He added, "I just couldn't imagine how they felt, knowing nothing about their loved ones for a year... So I just decided, I'll go look for it for myself." Gibson stated that he has no formal training in plane crash investigation but he has reportedly found 13 of the 27 MH370 fragments washed up from beach borders.

In a report from The Week, the private investigator was with three locals during the event of finding the suspected debris of the missing aircraft.