Graphic showing the debris which “almost certainly” came from Malaysia Airlines MH370 that went missing in 2014 with 239 people on board. A total of five pieces of likely debris have now been discovered in various spots around the Indian Ocean since the plane vanished in 2014.
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Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai says the discoveries were in line with the drift modeling pattern established by experts.
MH370’s disappearance is one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries. The piece had rivet holes along the edge and the number 676EB stamped on it, convincing him he had found a piece of an aircraft.
Despite a two-year investigation costing millions of dollars, only one piece of debris has been confirmed as coming from the aircraft – a 6-foot-long wing flap that washed up on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Two months ago, debris from a large aircraft washed ashore on beaches in South Africa & Mauritius.
The two most recently discovered items of debris-part of a jet engine nacelle and fragment of decorative laminate-were analyzed by the ATSB following a request from the Malaysian government.
In the latest find, an interior panel piece was recovered on Rodrigues Island in Mauritius.
“I just don’t believe what they said and no matter how many pieces of debris they’ve found, I just don’t think it is true”, Zhang Qian, whose husband Wang Houbin was on the flight, said in Beijing.
They were brought to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s Canberra laboratories for identification.
Consistent with the undertaking given by the Governments of Australia, Malaysia and the in April previous year, 120,000 square kilometers will be thoroughly searched.
Debris found by a South African family off the Mozambique coast in December 2015.
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It is believed to have crashed somewhere about 1800km off the West Australian coast.
