“As the debris was taken back to South Africa by the family, DCA has been in contact with the South African authorities on this matter to arrange for the South African authorities to take custody of it”, Liow said, in the statement. It was only a few days ago, with the media coverage of the discovery of another piece also in Mozambique, the family informed the South African authorities.
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MH370 A South African teenager has found a piece of debris that could possibly be a part of missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, reported Reuters.
A piece of debris suspected to be part of the horizontal stabilizer that washed ashore in Mozambique had been brought to Malaysia for preliminary analysis.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai called for patience for experts to carry out the verification process.
So far, the only debris confirmed to be from the plane was found on Reunion Island in September past year.
On March 8, 2014, Flight MH370 was en route to Beijing from the KL International Airport with 239 passengers and crew when it vanished from the radar.
He said the debris would be examined by investigators from Australia and Malaysia and specialists from Boeing.
“We want to be transparent and accountable in our investigation as much as possible… that is why we want (the parts) to be verified in Australia”, Liow said.
The 18-year-old who found the possible piece of debris said: “We stumbled across what seemed like a curved sort of grey object”.
The only as yet formally identified part of MH370 is the flaperon discovered on La Reunion by Johnny Bègue last July, which also came from the right hand side of the main wing.
Liow confirmed Monday that a 1-meter-long piece of metal found earlier this month had arrived in Malaysia last week.
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The search is expected to end by June for the plane, which was heading from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
