The Maldives Police Service has probed an investigation into washed up debris that was reported as parts of an aircraft.
The investigation was probed after an employee at Banyan Tree Resort posted photos of the debris that washed up on the island on the 31st of May.
While the police has declined on commenting on the issue, a source from the island confirmed to Raajje.mv that a team from the Serious and Organized Crime Unit of MPS along with experts from the Civil Aviation Authority of Maldives landed at the resort at around 1515hrs this afternoon.
The structures washed up on the island on the 31st of May and as per protocol followed in the island, the debris were sent for disposal at the waste incineration island of Thilafushi.
The resort also informed that an additional five to seven inch piece of metal that was discovered along with the debris was left behind and have now been handed over to MPS for investigation.
Sources within the island confirmed to Raajje.mv that they overheard the expert teams evaluating the debris and saying that initial assessment suggest that it is not that of an airline, and it was unlikely for it to be part of the missing Malaysian Airlines MH 370.
Location of Kaafu Atoll within the Maldives. 
Authorities are investigating what's left of debris believed to belong to a plane, that washed ashore several small islands in the . The investigation began as a result of photos of the debris being uploaded to the social networking  . Some of the debris is reported to have washed ashore as early as May 31 and was found on a beach owned by the Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru resort, located in . In the past few days, several other pieces of debris were recovered on at least three other islands. Authorities are trying to determine if it may be part of  (MH370). Last week, a piece of a wing known as a , reported to be from MH370, was found washed ashore on  Island.

Pictures taken of the objects recovered in the Maldives on, reportedly, May 31, were posted to Facebook by an employee of the resort. That prompted authorities to launch an investigation into the debris, but before it could be examined, it had already been sent away for disposal. The photographs show a large white object, possibly two, stained with  and appear to be made of a  and honeycomb material. The objects appear to be several  in length and width and in one photo where the paint is severely peeled, red letters "IC" can be seen.  Those pieces, along with others, were taken away and disposed of as trash. When authorities discovered the photographs, they returned to the site, but only found a small, five to seven  (about 13–18 ) piece of debris they say doesn't appear to be part of a plane. 

According to the resort's manager Mr. Naseem, the bigger pieces of debris and other waste were taken away and disposed of in the usual way. He added other forms of debris and trash with no value, such as buoys and suspected military waste, wash up on the islands all the time, especially during  season. Local residents and resort workers regularly collect trash which is sent to the garbage island  where it's sorted, exported for recycling, or burned. Reports say at the time the debris was collected, no one suspected it could be from MH370.

"Although some of it was taken to Thilafushi, there is still a five or a seven inch piece on the resort. It was left because it is small. The management has decided to hand it over to the Police", said an unnamed official to ''SunOnline'', who said authorities don't know if any of the debris taken away has been destroyed. The Serious and Organized Crime Unit of the  and experts from the  are heading the investigation.

Yesterday, reports stated several more pieces of debris, one piece measuring some eight feet by two feet (about 2.4 by 0.6 ), were found on ,  and  and washed ashore sometime in the past few days. One piece appears to have a serial number on the side, possibly reading '021411270507.' Initially residents who found the debris took it home. "A resident had found the debris and taken it home. Nobody had thought twice about it then. When he heard about the discovery in Vabbinfaru resort we immediately called the Police," said Mohamed Ibrahim, a councilman for Fehendhoo Island, to ''Haveeru Daily''.

MH370, while flying from ,  to , , vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014. All 239 passengers and crew are believed to be dead. On the day the plane went missing, residents on the small Maldive island of  claimed to have seen a very "low flying jumbo jet" crash into the . Some also noted the colors appeared to resemble that of a  plane. "I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly", one resident was quoted as saying to the newspaper ''''. Some claim the plane appeared to be headed in the direction of .

According to '''', ''Haveeru'' reported the witnesses were interviewed by authorities who deemed their statements to be truthful, but Maldive military officials along with  officials say no such aircraft was in Maldive airspace at the time MH370 went missing. "Based on the monitoring up to date, no indication of Flight MH370 has been observed on any military radars in the country Maldives. Furthermore, the data of radars at Maldives airports have also been analysed and shows no indication of the said flight", said Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein.