Five days after the discovery of a Boeing 777 wing fragment on La Reunion island, French and Malaysian aviation experts met with police and magistrates in Paris to coordinate their work in the investigation into the disappearance of Flight MH370.
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Investigators on the Indian Ocean island took the debris into evidence as part of their probe into the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, although nothing indicated that it came from an air plane, the source said.
“This has been verified by French authorities together with aircraft manufacturer Boeing, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Malaysian team”. Flight 370 is the only missing 777.
The Malaysian delegation in France led by Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman would be present during the opening of the crate, said Liow.
The flaperon has been shipped to France where experts are to begin examining it on Wednesday.
Authorities are awaiting a report from France, which is leading the investigation into the flaperon’s possible link to the missing plane.
Also on Sunday, La Reunion police collected a mangled piece of metal with Chinese characters and attached to what appeared to be a leather-covered handle, triggering more questions.
“People are more vigilant”.
He said islanders were also dumbfounded that after cursory helicopter flights the day after the wing part was found, no official search of the coastline is under way.
Meanwhile, Malaysia is seeking assistance from several aviation authorities in territories within the vicinity of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, he said, adding that “this is to allow the experts to conduct more substantive analysis should there be more debris coming on to land, providing us more clues to the missing aircraft”.
Scientists say it is plausible that ocean currents carried a piece of the wreckage as far as La Reunion. “We must wait for the results of the investigation”, she said.
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For victims’ families, the false alarms have reopened wounds as they seek closure from their personal tragedies. “We don’t know what it is, they’re just pieces of interest”, the official said.
