So is this it? It would support the "flew as far as possible" theory. Picture and map in the link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/wo...imesworld&_r=1
PARIS — A large object that appeared to be an airplane part washed up Wednesday on the shore of Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, prompting speculation that it might be debris from Flight 370, the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared in March 2014.
A French official with knowledge of the investigation said that the object appeared to be a wing flap, possibly from a Boeing 777, the type of aircraft used on the flight. The official said that the object was about 9 feet long and 3 feet wide, and that it appeared to have been in the water for a very long time.
The French aviation safety authorities have begun an investigation, the official said, adding that they were in the process of designating a laboratory in France where the object would be taken for examination. The process of pinning down exactly which plane the object came from will probably take several weeks, the official said.
A police official at gendarmerie headquarters near Paris, said that “right now, we have no elements that would enable us to confirm or disconfirm that this debris is from the Malaysia Airlines flight.”
Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Agence France-Presse reported that the object was found by people cleaning a beach, and cited a witness who said it was partly encrusted with shells and appeared weathered.
The French official said that while the find was being taken seriously, Réunion’s distance from the last detected location of Flight 370 — more than 3,000 miles — made it unlikely that debris from the plane would turn up there.
Flight 370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, veered off its planned route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and stopped communicating with ground controllers shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014. It flew westward across the Malay Peninsula and then southward over the Indian Ocean, and it is presumed to have crashed there in very deep water, killing everyone aboard. Months of extensive air and sea search efforts have so far failed to find any trace of the aircraft.