On March 8 last year, Flight MH370 disappeared from the radar while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew.
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The fragment was found on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
French and Malaysian aviation experts are slated to meet in Paris for investigation of the wreckage discovered last week and suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The recovered object, confirmed to be a moveable piece of a Boeing 777 wing (a flaperon), has arrived at a lab in Toulouse, France, where experts will examine it on August 5.
“We have responded positively to a request from the government of Malaysia“, deputy prime minister Xavier-Luc Duval said.
A new discovery on reunion beach, Taiwanese water bottles, has led to more speculation of the finding of a Boing-777 wing being MH-370 in the Indian Ocean (CNN).
But even if it is confirmed to be a part of the lost passenger jet, Wang says it won’t change much for him.
But Roland Triadec, a local oceanographer, said La Reunion represented only “a pinhead” in the Indian Ocean and the likelihood of other debris washing up there was low.
“The grieving process is about untying oneself from someone, accepting that they will not be found and they have gone forever”, she said.
Almost 4,000 miles separate the location of the search operation and Reunion Island where the debris was found. However, this distance has actually given Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan, who is leading the hunt, greater hope that the search team is looking in the right place.
He said flight-control surfaces on the wings and tail would be most likely to break off and float because they are essentially carbon-fiber skins filled with air, making them strong but lightweight.
“One should not expect miracles”, he said.
Images of the debris also appear to match schematic drawings for the right-wing flaperon from a Boeing 777. “MH370 reporting is more pronounced in the Australian market than other markets, and that correlates to social media hype”, he said, according to News Corp Australia. That search was called off in April, more than a month after the plane went down.
Australian officials, who are overseeing the sea search for Flight 370, says they won’t be sending anyone to Réunion and will remain focused on the search in the Indian Ocean.
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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.
