Malaysian government officials will ask territories near Reunion to alert them if they find any debris that could be from a plane, a transport ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
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The Malaysian team met with a French judge, aviation experts, police charged with the probe and representatives of the embassies of Australia and China – the country that lost the most passengers when the Malaysia Airlines plane inexplicably disappeared from radars last year with 239 people on board. The official wasn’t authorized to be publicly identified.
Malaysia’s Transport Ministry said earlier Sunday that the flaperon found on Wednesday came from a Boeing 777, the same aircraft type as Flight MH370.
Before the part arrived in France, investigators had a high-degree of confidence that the flaperon was from a Boeing 777, and therefore most likely from Malaysia 370.
It was found on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion and returned to the French mainland.
Members of the French gendarmerie carry a wooden box containing the wing part that was washed up on a beach, as they maneuver it into a van ready to be put onto a flight to France, at the Roland Garros Airport in Sainte-Marie, on the north coast of the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Friday, July 31, 2015.
A fragment of luggage which also washed up on Reunion Island is being sent to a police unit outside Paris for DNA tests.
The first piece, a section of wing known as a flaperon, is now in France where it is being analysed at a high-tech military lab in Toulouse.
A PIECE of debris which experts believe may have belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has arrived in France for testing.
Flaperons are control surfaces on the wing of an aircraft that help to stabilise the plane during low-speed flying during take-off and landing.
“That BB number is a clue”, Goglia said, “but it’s not the final clue”.
Photographs showing the wing component bearing the part number “657BB” proved it was from a Boeing 777, Aziz told Agence France-Presse. “We need the closure and all the evidence possible so that we can go ahead with our lives”, said Nur Laila Ngah, the wife of the flight’s chief steward Wan Swaid Wan Ismail.
“In the aeronautic community there is no (doubt) on the issue of what the debris belongs to”.
About two-thirds of these aboard Flight 370 have been Chinese language.
It’s unclear when the identification process will be completed and its results announced.
However, Chinese Internet users suggested it may be a kettle.
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The airliner’s crew has been the focus of attention since the mysterious disappearance, but no proof has emerged indicating they intended to destroy the plane.
