Plane debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as a component of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said.
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Australian search authorities, who are leading the Indian Ocean hunt for the aircraft some 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) from La Reunion, said they were confident the main debris field was in the current search area.
A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 arrived at a French military testing facility Saturday, where it may help experts shed light on what happened to the plane and its passengers.
French experts are scheduled to begin analyzing the piece on Wednesday.
Analysts on the French aviation laboratory hope to glean particulars from metallic stress to see what triggered the flap to interrupt off, spot explosive or different chemical traces, and research the ocean life that made its residence on the wing to pinpoint the place it got here from. In addition to that, a legal expert from the investigating team and French investigation agency BEA would meet Malaysian officials. “This could be the convincing evidence that MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean“, Malaysia’s deputy transport minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told AFP. Yesterday, there was a frenzy of speculation over what locals believed to be a plane door, but which authorities quickly identified as part of a domestic ladder.
Despite the arduous work ahead, Goglia said it shouldn’t take very long for investigators to confirm whether the flaperon belongs to a 777, since Boeing likely has sent drawings and design requirements for the flaperon to France.
About two-thirds of those aboard Flight 370 were Chinese.
But it is still unlikely that other debris from the aircraft, or its black box recorders, will be found, he said.
Experts will try to establish whether the part comes from Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. “This is from Jakarta, Indonesia”, he said, pointing to the writing on the bottle.
Workers for an association responsible for maintaining paths to the… If the wing part is from the Malaysian plane, it would bolster that theory and put to rest others that it traveled north, or landed somewhere after being hijacked.
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Investigators have found what may be a maintenance number on the wing piece, which may help investigators figure out what plane it belongs to, Truss said.
