After a 10-hour journey by street from Paris’ Orly airport, a truck carrying the roughly eight-foot element referred to as a flaperon arrived on the DGA TA aeronautical testing website close to Toulouse, accompanied by police bikes and a police automotive.
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“French authorities and Malaysian experts will meet Monday in Paris“.
Flight MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing last year and it was believed to have ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.
US aerospace giant Boeing said in a statement Friday that it would send a technical team to France to study the plane part.
With the part established as belonging to a Boeing 777, the same model as Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, investigators at the specialized center Direction Generale de l’Armement Techniques Aeronautiques will be focused on linking the wreckage to the doomed aircraft.
A piece of an airplane wing flap that washed ashore on a French island in the Indian Ocean reached investigators outside Toulouse Saturday who will try to determine whether it comes from a Malaysian jetliner that vanished 16 months ago.
Malaysian government officials will ask territories near Reunion to alert them if they find any debris that could be from a plane, a transport ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media. “We are all convinced that it belongs to this flight (370)”, said aviation security expert Christophe Naudin on France’s BFM-TV. The flight disappeared over the Indian Ocean almost 4,000 miles away from where the flaperon was found, on an island off the coast of East Africa.
Analysts on the French aviation laboratory hope to glean particulars from metallic stress to see what triggered the flap to interrupt off, spot explosive or different chemical traces, and research the ocean life that made its residence on the wing to pinpoint the place it got here from.
The new piece of debris found on a beach near the town of Saint-Denis on Sunday morning had nothing to do with the investigation involving the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Rahman said.
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Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau which is heading the search, said the discovery did not mean other parts would start washing up on La Reunion.
