Locals on La Reunion island have been combing the shores since a Boeing 777 wing part was found there last Wednesday.
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A wing, some speculate to be a part of the same 777 aircraft, has been found in Reunion beach in the western Indian Ocean.
Technical experts, including from US aerospace giant Boeing, will begin examining the wing component tomorrow (Aug 5).
The airline’s Flight 370, which disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board in March 2014, is the only missing 777.
It was earlier thought that the object found was the door of a plane, but Bowden said that did not now appear to be the case.
The wreckage washed up on Reunion Island, off the coast of Madagascar.
Malaysia’s transport ministry says it now wants to expand the search for more debris around Reunion.
Malaysia’s Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, citing French authorities and Boeing, confirmed Sunday that the flaperon had been verified as being from a Boeing 777, the same type of aircraft as Flight 370.
A suitcase discovered near the debris will be studied at a criminal investigation laboratory in Pontoise, near the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday.
“Malaysia and France share the concern and anxiety of all the next-of-kin in determining the origin of the flaperon in hope of ending the 16-month painful wait for determinative news”, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement after the meeting.
The debris will be handed over to French authorities for verification, the minister said. CCTV America’s Elaine Reyes interviewed Michael Planey, Airline Technology Consultant of HMPlaney Consultants about the debris:”Some wreckage from some sort of aluminium, frame, some sort of broken pieces of material from the plane”.
“We expect that the search area will take the coming year to complete”, Zielke said.
Reunion is about about 2,500 miles away from the area of the southern Indian Ocean where an Australian-led team was previously focusing its search.
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A spokesman in St. Andre, where the wing part was found, added that while people on the island have become more vigilant, “they are going to think any metallic object they find on the beach is from flight MH370”.
