Mozambique hands over possible MH370 debris

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Mozambique hands over possible MH370 debris

1:19 CAT | 09 Mar 2016

Reuters / An image of the debris found on the shore of an island near Vilankulos, Mozambique. It will now be analysed by Australian experts for a possible connection with the MH370 aircraft that disappeared off the radars without a trace, on March 7 2014, carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.

A piece of debris found by Blaine Gibson, an American tourist, was handed over on Monday during a four-hour meeting with Malaysian civil aviation authority experts investigating the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

The fragment bears the words ‘No Step’, suggesting that it is part of an aircraft tail horizontal stabilizer.

Speaking to Notícias, the president of the National Civil Aviation Institute, Joao de Abreu, said it was premature to say the debris was from the missing plane, but “there is a strong probability of it belonging to” the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Abreu said the object would go to Australia for analysis.

“As soon as they reach a conclusion, we will be informed,” he said.

Abreu said another piece of an aircraft was found a few days ago on Reunion Island, although again is was not yet known whether it was part of the Malaysian plane.

In July 2015, a fragment of an airplane wing was found on Reunion, east of Madagascar, the only confirmed fragment of the Malaysia Airlines plane discovered so far.

Source: AIM