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Sydney, Australia (AFP)—Two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are “almost certainly from MH370,” Australia and Malaysia said Thursday, after technical analysis provided fresh clues to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) aircraft. Until the latest discoveries, only a wing part recovered from a beach on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, which lies east of Mozambique, had been confirmed as coming from the plane that disappeared two years ago. “The analysis […]
Sydney, Australia (AFP)—A new piece of debris found by a South African holidaymaker that could be a part of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 will be sent to Australia for analysis, aviation authorities said. Teenager Liam Lotter told local media he had found the meter-long piece of metal on a beach while on holiday in Mozambique in December, and had taken it home. It was only when news broke earlier this month about a suspected […]
Beijing, China (AFP)—Distrust, disbelief, despair: two years after their loved ones vanished, many Chinese relatives of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 still refuse to believe they are somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The unique circumstances of the disaster — including conflicting initial accounts, an inconclusive search and a backdrop of skepticism all contribute to their insistence, specialists say. For many Chinese families, the impact of the disaster was magnified […]
Malaysian aviation officials were on Thursday (January 28) examining a metal object believed to be plane wreckage which washed up on the Malaysian east coast, prompting speculation for the second time in a week that debris from missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft MH370 may have surfaced. Local media reported that the object, which was white and measured two metres long, was spotted floating in the waters near the town of Besut in the eastern state of […]
Philippine authorities have ruled out suggestions that plane wreckage reportedly found on an island in the south of the country is of missing Malaysia airlines plane MH370. Captain Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, the commander of Naval Task Force 61, said they have deployed a gunboat in Sugbay Island in Tawi Tawi following reports that a teenager has found aircraft wreckage, with the Malaysian flag painted on its side, somewhere in the area. However, he said that […]
(Courtesy CCTV news) — Relatives of those on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 say the discovery of the first physical evidence of the plane has brought back the trauma of the aircraft’s disappearance. “It’s been sleepless nights, and it’s panic, nervous, fear, everything rolled into one, so I don’t know what to call it,” said Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Francis Gomes. “The very familiar, overpowering emotions and intense shocks, just […]
THERE is a “very strong presumption” that the piece of plane wreckage found on Reunion Island comes from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, a French prosecutor declared on Wednesday after an examination lasting several hours at a military lab in the suburbs of Toulouse, France. Deputy Paris Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak made the cautious declaration at a press conference in Paris. “In view of the observations made by the experts, we can say today that there […]
EXPERTS have confirmed that the aircraft debris discovered on Reunion Island belongs to missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced early Thursday. “Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370,” said the prime minister, who added that the physical […]
AUGUST 5 (CCTV) — As international experts are to analyze a piece of Boeing-777 washed up on the shores of the Reunion Island last week that is likely to be part of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, some others are warning that solving the mystery of MH370 will be quite challenging. When the wing fragment washed up on the shore of the Reunion Island last week, it raised hopes that the mystery of MH370 […]
(Courtesy China Central Television) — More information is needed to confirm what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, even if the wreckage found near the Reunion Island is verified as from the missing plane, a French aerospace professor said on Monday. The wreckage was discovered near Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean late Friday and has been confirmed to be part of a Boeing 777, the same aircraft type used for flight MH370. The […]
(Reuters) — Malaysia said on Sunday that airplane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as being from a Boeing 777, the same model as a Malaysian Airlines plane which vanished last year. Experts hope the 2-2.5 meter (6.5-8 feet) wing surface, known as a flaperon, and a fragment of luggage also found on Reunion could yield clues on the fate of Flight MH370, which disappeared without trace […]
(Reuters) — French gendarmes and police examined a large piece of plane debris found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on Wednesday (July 29). France’s BEA air crash investigation agency said it was examining the debris, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian authorities, to determine whether it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished last year in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. […]
