He added that helicopters would also be used, as would soldiers and policemen who will patrol the eastern part of the island where the flaperon was discovered.
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Multiple French officials involved in the investigation in Reunion and France said they were also unaware of a new discovery, Associated Press reports.
Malaysia has said the debris was “conclusively confirmed” as part of MH370 but the deputy prosecutor in France, where it is being analysed, stopped short of a definitive link, fanning the suspicions of family members.
A man walks along the coast in Saint-Andre on the French island of La Reunion on August 7, 2015, where a flaperon thought to be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 washed ashore.
Malaysia Airlines called Friday’s meeting after about a dozen relatives demonstrated outside its Beijing ticket office Thursday, saying Malaysia was hastily concluding that the plane went down at sea in order to close the matter.
“I don’t believe this latest information about the plane, they have been lying to us from the beginning”, said Zhang Yongli, whose daughter was on the flight.
The largest search operation in history is still underway in the remote area of the Indian Ocean where satellite data indicates the plane was most likely to have come down.
Malaysia says a wing part, called a flaperon, found earlier is certainly part of the missing MH370 and Foreign Minister Anifah Aman says the seat cushions and window panes have been sent to France for analysis. But French authorities haven’t gone that far. “We are accustomed to criticism from day one, but please give us credit because we are doing our best to cope with this”.
An aircraft would survey the area from this morning, the statement said.
However, a spokesperson for the Australian government – which is leading the maritime search for the plane – said that none of the new debris appeared to originate form MH370.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and its 239 passengers and crew disappeared March 8, 2014, on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
“We want to go to the island and see the truth”, he said.
Many Chinese relatives of MH370 passengers have consistently questioned official accounts and expressed belief that their loved ones are alive, perhaps being held at an unknown location, despite the mounting evidence of a fatal crash.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told CNN on Friday that the members of the team who found the debris know what they’re talking about.
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Analysts call the flaperon find a clear step forward by eliminating theories that the plane might have landed somewhere, and confirming the search was roughly on the right track.
