Map showing possible locations of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crash [Image via Jonathan Durgadoo, Siren Rühs, Arne Biastoch, GEOMAR] The officials note that if the wing flap was deployed, it would suggest that a pilot was in control at the time of descent. Over the last few months, several debris pieces have been found that have been linked to the missing Boeing 777-200.
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Australia’s Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said that one piece is confirmed to have come from MH370 while four other items are nearly certainly from the missing aircraft. The Australian minister added that experts will continue to analyse this part to see what information can be derived from it.
The search has lasted more than 2 years, but has found no sign of the main wreckage. The agency also said two items from Mozambique, which were found on December 27, 2015, and February 27, 2016, provided nearly irrefutable evidence that the parts were from the missing plane.
More than 200 passengers and crew aboard Flight 370 were lost on March 8, 2014, when the Boeing 777 jetliner vanished from radar screens on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The piece of debris was found in late June on Pemba Island, in the Indian Ocean near the mainland.
Australian officials have determined that four other pieces of debris found in Mozambique, South Africa and Mauritius nearly certainly came from the plane, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished.
“We remain hopeful that the aircraft will be located in the remaining search area”, Chester said.
Wreckage from MH370 was found on Reunion Island previous year.
In a related development, relatives of victims who were on board the Malaysia Airlines plane protested after the Chinese authorities announced that the search to locate the plane will be suspended.
Experts now hope to determine how MH370 hit the water in an area believed to be in the southern Indian Ocean 1,600 miles south west of Australia.
“My son is inside the plane”.
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On Thursday, Malaysia’s chief of police dismissed claims the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been a pilot murder-suicide.
