The plane wreckage found on the island on Wednesday was not identified, announced the Island prefecture on Thursday, saying it's early to draw conclusion.
"An aircraft debris was found yesterday morning on the coast near the town of Saint-Andre in Reunion. At this stage, the origin of the debris is not identified. No hypothesis can not be excluded, including being from of a Boeing 777," it said in a statement.
France's BEA air crash investigation agency was studying the wreckage, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian experts, it added.
An aviation expert, speaking to IPR agency, said the circulated pictures of the debris which seemed to be a part of the plane wing, had "incredible similarities between a B777 flaperon (of the missing Boeing)."
The report added gendarmerie officers recovered it for "the purposes of the investigation" on the mysterious missing of the MH370 flight.
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, was reported missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese.
So far, the place has been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, in what has become one of the biggest mysteries in the aviation history.
Xinhua - china.org.cn
30/7/15
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Number on Reunion Island debris corresponds to Boeing 777 component...
ReplyDeleteinvestigators are confident that debris found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean comes from a 777 aircraft, according to a source close to the investigation.
An international team of aviation experts is trying to determine if that airplane part comes from Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.
A match might help solve the mystery of what happened to that airplane, since no other 777s in the world are unaccounted for, according to the Aviation Safety Network, an online database of flight incidents..............http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/30/world/mh370-debris-investigation/index.html
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ReplyDeleteDas rätselhafte Verschwinden von Malaysia-Airlines-Flug MH370 kann womöglich doch noch aufgeklärt werden. An der Küste der Insel La Réunion wurden ein Wrackteil und ein Koffer gefunden.
Rund 16 Monate nach dem mysteriösen Verschwinden von Flug MH370 der Malaysia Airlines gibt es erste konkrete Spuren. An der Küste der französischen Insel La Reunion im Indischen Ozean wurde ein Wrackteil angespült, das zu dem vermissten Flugzeugtyp gehören soll. Zudem ist an der gleichen Stelle ein Teil eines Koffers gefunden worden, der ebenfalls von dem vermissten Flugzeug stammen könnte......n24.de