Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: More suspected debris washed up on La Reunion coast

A piece of plastic debris was found Tuesday in the northern coast of French overseas Island La Reunion, where a wreckage suspected to be part of the missing MH370 was washed up last Wednesday, according to local media.

Local police arrived at the beach east of Saint-Denis and carried the item away.

According to a picture provided by a witness, the newly found debris was an approximate 30*30cm square frame, with all the Edges and corners round-shaped.

Local media said that it looks like a porthole frame of a plane. However, nothing indicated that it has relation to a flight so far.

  • Reunion police didn't comment on the find.

The founder reportedly discovered another piece of metallic wreckage last Sunday at the same area, the local newspaper's website LINFO.RE reported.

  • However, that debris with two Chinese characters monogrammed on it, tested to be nothing to do with an aircraft.

The coastline of Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean is being scoured for more debris that could be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

A high-level police source who want to be anonymity told Xinhua that the local police have been receiving dozens of debris-found reports since the finding of the first wreckage last Wednesday.

Further out across the ocean, authorities of other islands - Mauritius and the Seychelles - said they are on the lookout for items bobbing in the waves that might be from the lost jetliner.

The wreckage found last Wednesday and a luggage bearing burnt patch and bottles pickup one day later had been sent to France on Saturday for further investigation.

Experts identified the debris as a flaperon from a Boeing 777, but did not confimed if it is part of the Malaysian jet reportedly missing since 2014.

The missing flight, a Boeing 777-200, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with a total of 239 people on board, most of them Chinese.
Xinhua - china.org.cn

 5/8/15
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1 comment :

  1. Enigme du vol MH370 : fin des recherches de débris sur l'île de La Réunion...

    (Belga) La France a suspendu lundi comme prévu la recherche d'éventuels débris du vol MH370, dont un fragment a été retrouvé fin juillet sur une plage de La Réunion, mais maintient un dispositif de "vigilance" près de cette île de l'Océan Indien.

    Les recherches n'ayant "permis d'identifier aucun élément susceptible d'avoir un lien avec un avion", le "dispositif évolue vers une posture de vigilance attentive", a annoncé lundi Dominique Sorain, le réprésentant de l'Etat sur cette île française. Après la découverte le 29 juillet d'un morceau d'aile ensuite identifié par la Malaisie comme appartenant au Boeing 777 de la Malaysia Airlines disparu en mars 2014, l'État français avait activé un large dispositif de recherches en mer et au sol. Pendant dix jours, les recherches ont porté sur une zone maritime totale de 10.000 km2 et des patrouilles terrestres ont sillonné tout le littoral est de l'île. En l'absence de nouvelle découverte significative, l'Etat maintient des moyens de vigilance et appelle "les usagers de la mer et les navigateurs aériens" à "rapporter toute observation suspecte", a précisé la préfecture. Le vol MH370 de la Malaysia Airlines a disparu le 8 mars 2014 alors qu'il effectuait la liaison Kuala Lumpur - Pékin avec 239 personnes à son bord. Le morceau d'aile, un flaperon, découvert à la Réunion, est à ce jour le seul débris formellement identifié de l'appareil. (Belga)
    rtl.be
    17/8/15

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