Malaysia seeks help to find more MH370 debris amid speculation over scraps found on Reunion
Malaysian officials said on Sunday they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.
Malaysian officials said on Sunday they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the Department of Civil Aviation was reaching out to authorities in territories near Reunion to allow experts "to conduct more substantive analysis should there be more debris coming on to land".
Liow said representatives from Malaysia, the US, China, France and Boeing would take part in the flaperon inspection.
Malaysia's transport ministry confirmed the wing part had been identified as being from a 777, saying it had been verified by French authorities together with Boeing, the US National Transportation Safety Board and a Malaysian team. Flight MH370 is the only missing 777 and many are convinced the flap comes from the ill-fated jet.
Experts will try to establish whether the part comes from Flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. About two-thirds of those aboard the flight were Chinese.
The experts are expected to start their inquiry on Wednesday. On Monday, an investigating judge will meet with Malaysian authorities and representatives of the French aviation investigative agency, known as the BEA.