The Malaysian authorities have been criticized for jumping the gun on confirmation and accused of trying to tie a neat bow on an otherwise complicated investigation.
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“France is being cautious about it, but Malaysia is desperate to put an end to this case and run away from all responsibilities”, she said.
A relative of a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, is consoled by a journalist outside the Malaysia Airlines’ office in Beijing on August 6, 2015.
Mr Liow said he understood why the French team had been less categorical. “We hope very much that the debris that was discovered on Reunion Island, if it is found to be conclusively part of the aircraft, that this will help to bring some sense of closure about what happened”, he said in Kuala Lumpur.
“We respect the view that they believe they have sufficient evidence to make a categorical statement of that nature”, Truss told reporters.
“We have also found debris like window panes, aluminium foil and seat cushions”, Malaysian transport minister Liow Tiong Lai told AFP.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said earlier that the airline owed the families an explanation of how wreckage found off eastern Africa last week was assessed to be from the missing plane. “I can not confirm that it’s from MH370”.
Shim said he hoped to go to Reunion Island one day to look for whatever was still left of the aircraft.
Investigators would probably then clean it and “do a full physical examination, using ultrasonic analysis before they open it up to see if there’s any internal damage”, Weber said.
“Of course, there is still some i’s not dotted and t’s not crossed. There is still a very small element of doubt”. One of the passenger’s family members, Sara Weeks said, “After 17 months, we need definite answers”.
Malaysian authorities insist that they still do not know what caused the plane to vanish. “Why are they trying to fool us?…”
The flaperon that washed up on the island of Reunion, photographed on July 29.
That search, which began in October, has covered nearly half that area without finding any clues.
Search efforts have focussed on a broad expanse of the southern Indian Ocean off Australia.
Now investigators will reportedly turn their focus to the area around Reunion Island to determine if the remainder of the flight is buried somewhere beneath the Indian Ocean.
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Mr Hansford, who has previously said he believed the crash was the deliberate act of the pilot, said the flaperon snapping off gave pointers on how the jet entered the water.
