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Relatives of missing passengers from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 think they may have found more pieces of debris

  • The next of kin said in a brief statement on Wednesday that they would meet Malaysia’s transport minister on Friday to hand over newly recovered debris

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Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing in March 2014. Photo: Reuters
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Relatives of people who went missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014 have retrieved what they believe are new pieces of debris from the aircraft and will present them to the Malaysian government this week.

Flight MH370 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board when it disappeared and became one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

A Vietnamese official studies a maps showing the missing plane’s possible locations. Photo: Handout
A Vietnamese official studies a maps showing the missing plane’s possible locations. Photo: Handout
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Malaysian and international investigators believe the jet veered thousands of miles off course from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean. But no one knows why.

In all, 27 pieces of aircraft debris have been collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments that washed up along the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to be from MH370.

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The next of kin said in a brief statement on Wednesday that they would meet Malaysia’s transport minister on Friday “to hand over newly recovered debris”.

A grieving relative of a Chinese passenger. Photo: AP
A grieving relative of a Chinese passenger. Photo: AP
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