MH370: Paper towel washed up on Australian beach could be from missing plane

Keep in mind this sentence from the article:

"The paper towel was found in July last year, but it has only just emerged that it was discovered."

Here's the original report:

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/03/10/09/19/malaysia-airlines-handwipes-could-be-first-clue-to-mh370

"However, the JACC has refused to release a photograph of the original find"

In other words, the images prominently posted on the other "news" sites, such as the mirror, are not of the actual paper towel. They're recreations.
But why the the facts get in the way. . .

Next item to wash up on the beach will be Amelia's scarf...

To quote from the wonderful "Yes, Prime Minister" TV series:

Sir Humphrey: "The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices."

Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is."

Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"

Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care *who* runs the country - as long as she's got big tits."

Of all the stuff on a plane.... only a towelette washes up in perfect condition? I'm calling hoax. Someone probably dropped it on the beach to start a story

I haven't finished reading everyone's comments, but what I find absolutely absurd is the item was found almost a year ago and "experts" are still conducting tests to determine if it's from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. WHAT on God's green Earth could they learn after a year they haven't already on this itty bitty teeny weeny paper towel?

Sarcasm Alert: Can you say "job security"?

Consider the source. This is typical Mirror sensationaliam.

Pretty good condition for having gone through a plane crash, floated in the ocean for who knows how many miles and then spent who knows how long on a hot beach each exposed to the elements. One would think it would at least looked pretty rough.

You mean to tell me that of the 1.5 MILLION parts of that aircraft that are float-able Materials. It is a "Moist Paper Towelette" that made it to the NEWS? As proof that the 800,000 pound aircraft, the size of an APARTMENT BUILDING, crashed into the South Indian Ocean? When more than a 2000 items that floated away from the "Miracle on the Hudson", are to THIS DAY washing up on the Atlantic Shore HUNDREDS of miles away! And that aircraft had one of the ALL TIME BEST water landings of a large jet aircraft. Still 1000's of items floated away from that aircraft, and have been found on shore and at sea. The MH370 aircraft would have in that HORRIBLE rough sea, been torn apart by such a landing!

A shred, but evidence?

"Could be from missing plane." And could be from that beach picnic last June. Or from any one of hundreds of cruise ships within 2,000 miles. Or from that river cruise hundreds of people went on to see the sights. Or maybe someone went for a stroll on a beach and pitched the extra one in the sea.

How many HUNDRED MILLION "moist towelettes" are manufactured worldwide every year and shipped to within 2,000 miles of Malaysia and the supposed crash site? Why are we "grasping at straws" - or is it "grasping at towelettes"?

Can we PLEASE have some common sense here and move on to something real? This is NOT news.

Oh brother, another piece of fuel for the conspiracy fanatics is all I see coming out of this, but by some chance of hope it's something the question is still where is it?

That thing with the paper towel and MH370 is not likely. We need at least something more substantial that some retired couple collecting trash on some western Australian beach :)

Still cannot find any tracking data on Solar2. So is this going to be their policy? No public tracking at all?
It is understandable given the vulnerability of this aircraft if it does not have escorts.

Lets hope it is, so people can put their love ones to rest. And find were the plane is.

Aside from being an old news item the photo is a sample. Anything towlette that did wash up after 3 months would be faded and possibly unrecognisable. From the 500 plus page report there is zero located and the wind and wave indications make anything more likely to turn up in Indonesia not Auz

Guys, please do NOT let the TIGHAR crowd know about this missing airliner for they would start extracting contributions amounting to millions from unsuspecting johns (including former DOS Hillary) for years on end claming that "they KNOW" where MH370 is and fueling ignorant press types to publish reports like those before that they are just hours away from pinpointing where Amelia and Noonan are resting.

I hope the plane is found to answer all the questions about what failed. Closure for the families is probably more important.

Who are these "experts" that can examine a moist towelette and tell you more about it than any of the rest of us?

Does anyone know where in WA (Western Australia) they found this? In the video the reporter claims that the search area is "100's of kilometers away..." That's not really that far away from the nearest land of the current search area.

The thing that makes me the most suspicious of this find is this comment:

""We had been saying, 'let's look for stuff from MH370'," Mr Miller said."

This could easily be a hoax perpetrated by someone looking for 15 minutes of fame.
Or it could be real evidence if it was found in the search area or within a few 100 kilometers of the search area. Or it could just be someone who flew on MAS and dropped it on the beach. Disposable towels are things that people often carry around and save for later use.
My opinion is that it's not likely only one paper towel would show up without more debris from MH370 showing up eventually in the same area.

Very interesting. Must have been a perfect belly landing like that flight on the Hudson years ago.

Crashed in March, found in July. So there is "paper towel" - of any kind - which survives in restless saline water and waves for four months without disintegrating? Are we plasticising our "paper towels" now to waterproof them? HOAX. JUNK NEWS. PLANTED EVIDENCE. But certainly not from MH370 - let's see if there are any surviving paper towels in Kazakhstan, where the plane probably really is - because from the total lack of debris in an entire YEAR it's obviously NOT in the water. Can we PLEASE move on now?

We know it crashed, so what will they get from this?