Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport has confirmed that the debris found in Tanzania is from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Analysis of a large flap section found off the coast of Tanzania supports claim that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plunged into the Indian Ocean in a “death dive”, according to a new report Friday.
The ATSB said now the part is confirmed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, work can begin to determine if the flap holds any clues as to how and where MH370 was brought down.
On July 29 a year ago, a piece of aircraft debris was found washed ashore on the French island, east of Madagascar.
“Besides the Boeing part number, all identification stamps have a second OL number which are unique identifiers relating to the part”, the minister highlighted.
The wing flap was found on Pemba island off Tanzania in June and has now been positively identified as belonging to the stricken flight by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
“This confirmation means a lot to us because we can ensure the next course of action to study the condition of the debris and how the incident had actually happened to MH370”, he said. The announcement by ATSB, which is leading the search for the Flight MH370, comes as the search for the missing plane is set to be suspended in December.
Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, disappeared without a trace on March 8, 2014, almost an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
He searched the beaches on his own and was the first to find a piece of metal on a sandbank of a channel between Mozambique and Madagascar.
MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew onboard, triggering one of the biggest search operations in aviation history.
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It is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean, but an extensive deep-sea hunt off Australia’s west coast is drawing to a close with nothing found yet.
