French officials on the island of Reunion say no new no materials connected to missing flight MH370 has been found on the island since a wide-scale search began on Friday.

Officials do say they will continue scowering the island for any more wreckage connected to the missing flight.

Authorities on the island, located just east of Madagascar, ramped up the search for MH370 wreckage after a piece of the plane's wing was discovered on the island earlier this month.

MH370 disappeared in March of last year on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Two-thirds of the passangers are Chinese nationals.