When the friend suggested the debris belonged to a plane engine, Kruger contacted the South African Civil Aviation Authority.
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“When I flipped it around, I didn’t know immediately what it was but just thought, ‘Oh my word!”‘
Further examination was required to verify if the debris belonged to the Boeing Co. The debris was found on a beach near Mossel Bay, a town in a Western Cape province, and will be sent to experts to be analyzed, according to South African authorities.
The piece with the Rolls Royce logo on it is clearly off an aircraft engine cowling which would float and it also is painted in the same Malaysia Airlines grey colouring.
Liow said that based on initial reports, the debris may have come from an inlet cowling of an aircraft engine.
Meanwhile, the verification process on two suspected pieces of debris from MH370 found in Mozambique is now underway in Australia.
The image below shows what appears to be an access panel from the right hand side of the 777’s wing on a Mozambique shore last December for comparison with the latest find shown at the top of the post.
“MOT will provide updates as and when new information becomes available, said Liow”.
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board, a lot of them being Chinese nationals.
An Australian-led underwater search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed, has found no trace of it so far.
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Investigators have said the search will end by June unless fresh clues are found.
