One of the latest parts, labeled Part No. 3, was from a Rolls-Royce engine cowling, the same used by Malaysia Airlines on their Boeing 777 jets and the same type which went missing.
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Five pieces of debris confirmed as coming from MH370 have now been recovered, including a flaperon from Reunion Island, and two other parts from Mozambique.
Australian officials yesterday confirmed the debris is consistent with that of the missing Malaysia airlines flight MH370.
“It shows they’re looking in the right ocean that’s about it”, Dell said.
Both pieces were sent to Canberra for analysis, following a request from the Malaysian government, and were handled in accordance with ICAO practice, as per two other pieces that the ATSB previously identified.
No other 777 has ever crashed in the southern hemisphere, and none has reported missing pieces.
South African teenager Liam Lotter was vacationing with his family in Mozambique when he found this possible MH370 debris. The piece had rivet holes along the edge and the number 676EB stamped on it, convincing him he had found a piece of an aircraft. An extensive underwater search of a wide area of the Indian Ocean off Australia’s west coast has so far been fruitless. The piece was stored with the family’s fishing gear and nearly forgotten; his mother even tried to throw it out.
But the countries have agreed that in the absence of “credible new information” the search will end by the middle of the year.
After 10 months of intensive undersea search for the vanished flight, on January 29 2015 Malaysia declared that MH370 was lost in an accident, killing all passengers.
To confirm that the debris has come from Flight 370, they use manufacturing marks and samples of marine ecology. The cowling still carried a partial Rolls-Royce logo.
“Once I have gone through the report, we will decide whether to allow Rayani Air to continue their operations”, he said, adding that the report will be submitted to him soon.
Investigators may be one step closer to solving the mystery of what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after analyzing two more pieces of debris discovered in March.
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“Part No. 4 was a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 panel segment from the main cabin, associated with the Door R1 closet, nearly certainly from the aircraft registered 9M-MRO”. Data recorders and the plane’s black box is for now, the only findings that will provide answers.
