Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said a part found recently by an American in Mozambique is now in Malaysia for safekeeping. Mr Weeks was a passenger aboard the MH730 flight which went missing.
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Next-of-kin had started to file lawsuits over the jet’s disappearance as a two-year deadline approached last week with some hopeful the court scrutiny could shed light on what happened to the ill-fated flight.
The family of New Zealand-born Paul Weeks, who was on the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, is suing the company for damages.
They were seeking compensation for “personal injury loss and damage” suffered as a result of “sudden shock” and “mental harm” after the disappearance the Times said.
Malaysia Airlines has faced several lawsuits since the Boeing 777-200 disappeared in March 2014, with 239 people on board.
A piece of suspected aircraft wreckage found off the east African coast of Mozambique, seen at Mozambique’s Civil Aviation Institute (IACM) in Maputo, on March 3, 2016.
As authorities continue to work to determine the origin of possible plane debris found in the southeast African nation of Mozambique earlier this month, reports surfaced last week that a South African tourist had picked up debris on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel in December.
South African authorities planned to hand over the debris found by Lotter to the same Australian team.
The aircraft is believed to have been diverted off course and to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean to the west of Australia.
Last July a man on the French-held Indian Ocean island of Reunion found a wing fragment that experts later determined came from MH370, the only confirmed evidence of the plane’s fate to be found.
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The search is expected to end by June.
