A piece of wreckage from a Boeing 777 – likely from MH370 – was found washed ashore over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique, a USA official told CNN on Wednesday.
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The US broadcaster cited unnamed sources who said photographs of the object found by an American blogging about the missing plane’s search were being examined by Boeing engineers as well as investigators from Malaysia, Australia and the US. Boeing also declined to comment, referring all questions to investigating authorities.
The object has the words “NO STEP” on it and could be from the plane’s horizontal stabilizer – the wing-like parts attached to the tail, sources say.
Despite extensive searching, investigators have struggled to make clear what exactly happened to the aircraft that vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The ATSB has said it knows of the discovery and will be conducting a thorough examination of the object, according to NBS News. It was verified as part of the missing plane after more than a month of forensic analysis of a laboratory near Toulouse. So far, the only debris found believed to have belonged to Malaysia Flight MH370 surfaced on the shores of Réunion, an island east of Madagascar.
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The search for the missing plane is now ongoing in the southern Indian Ocean.
