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A
wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 arrived
at a French military testing facility on Saturday where it will be analyzed by
experts. (Aug. 1) AP
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A second piece of
suspected plane debris has washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion,
after a wing part suspected to come from the missing flight MH370 was found on
Wednesday. The
object, believed to be the door of an aircraft, was discovered just south of
the city of St Denis. It is said to have writing on it and possibly some
illustration.
BBC report continues:
The
Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared last March
with 239 people on board.
Malaysia's
transport ministry says it now wants to expand the search for more debris
around Reunion.
An
Australian-led search effort for the plane has so far focused on a vast area of
the southern Indian Ocean about 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the east of Reunion.
No
physical trace of the aircraft has been found.
However,
Malaysia's transport minister has confirmed that the object found on a beach at
St Andre on Wednesday is a wing flap from a Boeing 777 - the same type of
aircraft as the one that vanished.
"This
has been verified by French authorities together with aircraft manufacturer
Boeing," Liow Tiong Lai said on Sunday.
The
piece has gone to France, where investigators in the city of Toulouse will seek
to establish if it came from MH370. They will begin their work this Wednesday.
Fragments
of a suitcase found on the same beach are also to be examined.
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French
police officers inspect a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion
Island. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have
identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a
Boeing 777 wing. Lucas Marie, AP
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