In January past year Malaysia declared Flight MH370, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew, was lost in an accident and all on board were presumed dead. An extensive underwater search of a wide area of the Indian Ocean off Australia’s west coast has so far been fruitless.
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“Following a thorough examination, the Malaysian International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team has concluded that both pieces of debris are consistent with panels found on a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft”.
Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the families of four MH370 victims were suing Malaysian Airlines over the flight’s mysterious disappearance.
To confirm that the debris has come from Flight 370, they use manufacturing marks and samples of marine ecology.
A washed up piece of the plane found in July a year ago.
The piece of debris that tourists discovered in March on Rodrigues Island in Mauritius was different than the other four: This one had a pattern that appeared to come from a wall inside the plane.
The first was a piece of engine cowling featuring a partial Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa in March.
Australia is leading the search for the plane in the remote southern Indian Ocean, believed to be its final resting place. Authorities had predicted that any debris from the plane that isn’t on the ocean floor would eventually be carried by currents to the east coast of Africa.
This video includes clips from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing and the Australia Transport Safety Bureau.
He also said that experts had narrowed down an area where the jetliner might have vanished.
Photo taken on March 3, 2016 shows a piece of an airplane during a news conference in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. Data recorders and the plane’s black box is for now, the only findings that will provide answers.
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“We still have time because the search has so far completed 105,000sq km and we want to complete the 120,000sq km search”, said the minister.
