Experts believe they may have found another piece of missing flight MH370

Experts are examining a piece of debris believed to be from a Boeing 777, which could belong to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, NBC News reports. The plane vanished without a trace almost two years ago to the day; the only piece of confirmed debris ever found from the plane was a flaperon discovered on Reunion Island last July. NBC describes the new piece of debris as having been found "in the same corner of the southern Indian Ocean" as that flaperon.

To date, no sign of Flight MH370 was ever found aside from the single flaperon. The new debris has the words "No Step" on it and could be from the plane's horizontal stabilizer, which is attached to the tail of the plane.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center has said that if no new credible information about the plane's location comes out, they will end their search around the middle of this year. So far, 46,000 square miles of seabed have been scoured.

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