Three new pieces of debris have been found in Mauritius and in Mozambique that could be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia’s transport minister said Thursday.
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The following video from the Malaysian news outlet The Star contains more information on the discovery of the three new, possible Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 debris pieces.
The latest news follows an announcement earlier this month that pieces of debris found in South Africa and Mauritius over the previous year were found to be “almost certainly” from MH370 after examination by experts in Australia.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was making a routine overnight flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014, when it suddenly cut off communication with the ground and took a dramatic turn to the west, flying for an estimated seven hours.
In an operational search update released yesterday from the Australian government’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre, winter weather conditions continue to bring rough seas and strong winds to the search area, impacting on operations.
Two of the pieces were found in Mauritius while the third was found in Mozambique.
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Local ecological association members and volunteers stand behind debris found on 11 August 2015 in the eastern part of Sainte-Suzanne, on France’s Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
“It’s in the right area where debris is expected to wash up”, he told the BBC, saying it indicated the accuracy of drift models which show how debris might have moved from the crash site.
Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau which is conducting the search, acknowledged it is looking less likely that the remains of MH370 will be found as the search nears the end.
On Thursday, Australia’s Transport Minister Darren Chester said two fragments found recently in Mauritius and one in Mozambique were also “of interest”.
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He said: “That’s just a statement of the obvious. All of which is to say that a concerted effort to sweep remote beaches should turn up a lot of MH370 debris”.
