MH370: wreckage found on island 'came from Boeing 777'
- 9 years ago
Investigators are travelling to the French Indian ocean island of La Réunion to see whether a piece of aircraft wing washed up on a beach is the first evidence from the crash of a Malaysian Airlines plane last year.
The debris looks like a wing flap but officials have little else to go on and have stressed it is too early to say one way or another.
However, experts say the part has certain features that appear to match a wing part of a 777 aircraft, known as a ‘flaperon’. Only one such plane has ever crashed south of the equator.
“It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this,” Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told Reuters.
Up to now, no trace has been found of the aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur towards Beijing.
The debris looks like a wing flap but officials have little else to go on and have stressed it is too early to say one way or another.
However, experts say the part has certain features that appear to match a wing part of a 777 aircraft, known as a ‘flaperon’. Only one such plane has ever crashed south of the equator.
“It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this,” Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told Reuters.
Up to now, no trace has been found of the aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur towards Beijing.