On Saturday, a few hundred people attended a mass in Saint Andre in remembrance of the victims, a few hundred metres from the spot where the flaperon was found on Wednesday.
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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said while the part “could be a very important piece of evidence”, using reverse modelling to determine more precisely where the debris may have drifted from was “almost impossible”.
Paris Expectations are high among investigators who are hoping to unlock the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as a piece of plane wreckage found on Reunion island arrived in Paris on Saturday for official analysis.
It was found on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion and returned to the French mainland.
“I read all over media it (the new debris) was part of a door”, Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.
That part, which is suspected to be from the wing of a Boeing 777, was sent to France for official verification.
Experts hope the barnacled 2-2.5 meters (6.5-8 feet) long wing surface known as a flaperon and a fragment of luggage could yield clues as to the fate of Flight MH370, which vanished without trace in March 2014.
Meanwhile, Malaysian officials would reportedly ask for help from authorities near Reunion to locate more plane debris and talk to crash experts.
Flight MH370 is the only Boeing 777 to ever be lost at sea.
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Ghyslain Wattrelos, whose wife and two children were on the flight, said he was relieved to get the smallest bit of information about the missing plane. It said a French judge in charge of the investigation, a representative of Malaysian judicial authorities, an expert from BEA investigation bureau and others from Malaysia and France would meet on Monday in Paris. There were 239 people aboard the aircraft, majority Chinese.
