Two pieces of debris found in South Africa and on Rodrigues Island near Mauritius ware “almost certainly” from missing flight MH370.
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The Boeing 777 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers, majority Chinese, and crew on board.
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai says the discoveries were in line with the drift modeling pattern established by experts.
All of the debris pieces found from the flight 370 have been discovered near the Indian Ocean, having one discovered on France’s Reunion Island and one in the coast of Mozambique.
The two Mozambique fragments, found by South African teen Liam Lotter, were also investigated by the ATSB in Canberra, while the fragment found on Reunion was sent to France previous year.
Although the discoveries have bolstered authorities’ assertion that the plane went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean, none of the parts has so far yielded any clues as to exactly where and why it crashed.
To confirm that the debris has come from Flight 370, they use manufacturing marks and samples of marine ecology.
Australia is leading the massive multi-nation search in the remote southern Indian Ocean, believed to be the final resting place of the Boeing 777. At the time, authorities assumed that it and the 239 people on board crashed into the sea but were unable to find any trace of the flight.
South African teenager Liam Lotter was vacationing with his family in Mozambique when he found this possible MH370 debris.
More recently in March, investigators found two more pieces of debris from the plane on the coast of Mozambique.
“The governments of Malaysia, Australia and China continue to be wholly committed to the search for MH370”, Liow said Thursday.
A file image of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER 9M-MRO at Sydney. The other piece found on 30 March in Mauritius is nearly certain from MH370’s main cabin.
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Following an examination of the fragments, the ATSB said one had a partial Rolls-Royce logo that “did not match the original from manufacture”, but was consistent with the logo developed and used by Malaysian Airlines on other Boeing 777 aircraft in its fleet.
