Wing flap that washed ashore in Tanzania confirmed to belong to MH370

The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had in mid-air with 239 people on board during a regular flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014. A wing flap that had washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has now been identified as belonging to the missing Being 777.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 15 September 2016.

The flap was found in June by residents on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, and an analysis by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane, has confirmed that it was indeed from the aircraft.
This was the fifth piece of wreckage from the plane that have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since the aircraft vanished in mid-air in 2014.
Apart from the latest discovery of a wing flap, another piece of wing was found a year ago on La Reunion Island, near Madagascar and it was positively identified by French officials.
Search officials expect some more wreckage to wash up in the coming months but, none of the debris recovered so far has helped to narrow down the precise location of the main underwater wreckage.


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Did debris of the ill-fated Malyasia Airlines MH370 reach Reunion Island

#MalayasiaAirlines #MH370 #reunionisland Malayasia Airlines flight MH370 had vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard as it was on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There was no trace of the wreckage of any debris till some items have washed up on a beach of the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Among the debris found is a bottle of laundry detergent from Jakarta, Indonesia – this lends credence to the theory that these could be from missing Flight MH370.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 31 July 2015.

Earlier, a sea-encrusted section of a plane wing had been found to have washed up on Reunion and it is believed to most certainly be a part of the Boeing 777. This is felt to be a potentially major breakthrough in the search for the missing jet.
Items that have been found on the Saint Andre beach on the western coast of the French island east of Madagascar will be examined by a team of experts who are looking to determine if they came from the plane that has been missing since March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard.
Malaysian investigators will be sending the debris to a French military laboratory near Toulouse -- the hub of Europe's aerospace industry --for examination. The wing part will also be analyzed in special defense facilities that are used for airplane testing and analysis.
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