Two more possible new debris from MH370 discovered in Mozambique – National Aviation Institute

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Two more possible new debris from MH370 discovered in Mozambique – National Aviation Institute

6:00 CAT | 30 Aug 2016

A family member of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing in 2014 holds a banner during a gathering in front of the Malaysian Embassy on the second anniversary of the disappearance of MH370, in Beijing, China, March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj - RTS9SC3

Two new possible pieces of the plane Malaysia Airlines missing for more than two years have been found in southern Mozambique, President of the National Aviation Authority (IACM) João Abreu said yesterday

The pieces, found on the coast of Inhambane province, join four other previous discoveries in Mozambique which might have belonged to the Boeing 777 that disappeared with all 239 people on board on March 08, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

One piece was found earlier this year by an American tourist in Vilanculos, also in Inhambane province, and has been handed over to Malaysian authorities. Two other fragments were found in Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, also in the south.

João Abreu said that he was unaware of the circumstances in which the two new objects were found, noting only that they were delivered to the police Morrumbene district of Inhambane.

AFP reports the discovery, by a South African hotelier, of only aircraft part in Morrumbene, But Abreu reiterates that there are two new pieces, which will join the other two still in the possession of the Mozambican authorities.

The fragments will be kept in Maputo until the Mozambican government answers a request submitted about a month ago by the Malaysian ministry of transport for a protocol to be set for a search for more traces on the coast of Mozambique, Abreu said.

The fragments are aerodynamic surfaces of about one square meter each and have not been proved to belong to the Malaysia Airlines aircraft. Only part of a of the Boeing 777 wing, recovered on a beach on neighbouring Reunion Island, has been definitely linked to MH370.

In April, the Australian Office for Security in Transport, which has been leading the search for the aircraft, said that two pieces of debris found on the Mozambique coast ‘almost certainly’ belong to the MH370 flight. The Malaysian government issued a similar opinion in relation to other objects found in South Africa and in Mauritius.

The MH370 disappeared 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. According to investigators, all communication systems were turned off and the plane was diverted from its route to the south-east of the Indian Ocean where it would eventually have come down.

Source: AIM