France says wing part found on Reunion island definitely from MH370 http://ebx.sh/1LXxEk8
PARIS – The piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has been formally identified as part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.
The French prosecutor, who had until Thursday’s statement been more cautious on its provenance, said a technician from Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU) in Spain, which had made the part for Boeing, had formally identified one of three numbers found on the flaperon as being the serial number of the MH370 Boeing 777.
“It is therefore possible to confirm with certainty that the flaperon found on Reunion island on July 29, 2015 corresponds to the one from flight MH370,” the prosecutor said in a statement.
Boeing parts maker doubts Reunion wing debris from MH370
A Spanish company which manufactures wing parts for Boeing 777 said it could not confirm that the debris found on the French island of Reunion last July was that of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, CNN reports.
But CNN reported that the company told French investigators “that it cannot tell with certainty from consulting its records whether the flaperon found on Reunion Island came from MH370”.
It said attempts by investigators to match a number found on the debris with records from the company “proved impossible”.
The Malaysian government appeared to be the only one to confirm with absolute certainty that the flaperon belonged to MH370.
French investigators meanwhile told CNN last week that although the flaperon, which experts believed was that of a Boeing 777, is likely to be from the missing plane, it cannot confirm the link.
“There are strong indications that this flaperon is from MH370, but we are still unsure. We are still missing identification from the parts list in order to fully confirm it is from MH370,” Martine Del Bono from French aviation body Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) told CNN.
Earlier Prime Minister Najib confirmed debris from the MH370, but France investigators said only that there is a great chance, now Spain producers say … … http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/651135 # China today newspaper
MH370 Debris examined by a Malaysian team in the Maldives was not from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a senior Malaysian official said today.
Some pieces were not even from a plane, according to the investigators, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters.
The team was still sifting through the material and would bring any found to be from MH370 back to Malaysia for further analysis, he said.
“Subsequent examination has indicated that in all probability, the wreckage, a wing part known as a flaperon, was from MH370,” said JACC in a statement on Wednesday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Finally, the Australian Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) has confirmed that an aircraft wing part known as flaperon found in the French Reunion Island is from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
“Subsequent examination has indicated that in all probability, the wreckage, a wing part known as a flaperon, was from MH370,” said JACC in a statement on Wednesday.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – An MH370 families’ organisation said on Wednesday it would not accept the Malaysian government’s declaration that wreckage found on an island in the Indian Ocean came from the ill-fated flight until more “conclusive” analysis is completed.
Voice 370, an international next-of-kin support group, also reiterated its suspicion over the Malaysian government’s handling of the jet’s disappearance last year, and called for any potential MH370 debris to be analysed by impartial authorities.
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“However, after one week, other experts have not concurred with the Malaysia declaration,” Voice 370 said in a statement.
“Needless to say, most families have refused to accept the Malaysian verdict, and are awaiting a more definite and conclusive analysis,” it added.
The Voice 370 statement said families “are apprehensive about the handling of the whole incident from day one by the Malaysian authorities.
“This led to families having doubts about their expertise, capabilities and intentions.”
French authorities have not gone as far as Datuk Seri Najib in confirming that the wing piece came from the plane, saying only that there was a “very highly probability”.
“We the families of those on board MH370 would like to appeal that all debris be analysed at a reputable place with the appropriate expertise and equipment” including possibly the French government or
Beijing: Chinese relatives of passengers aboard missing flight MH370 today demanded to be taken to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where a wing part was found that the Malaysian government said was from the plane.
Most of those on board the aircraft were Chinese and about 30 family members gathered outside an office building near Beijing’s main airport in hopes of meeting Malaysian officials, although none attended.
“Our demand is to go to Reunion island and look for ourselves,” said Hu Xiufang, who had three relatives, including her son, on board the plane
“All the relatives want to go there,” she said. “Malaysia is the country responsible and they should obtain the relevant documents.
The bitter memories of Putrajaya’s fumble in handling the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 last year have been reignited following the discovery of debris on French-controlled Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar.
This was after Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak confirmed in the wee hours of yesterday that the flaperon discovered was indeed from Flight MH370 which had been missing for 16 months.
However, hours later, US and French authorities were unwilling to confirm that it was indeed from Flight MH370, with the latter merely stating there was a “very strong presumption” that it came from the doomed aircraft.
This is on top of Malaysia’s Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai confirming new debris discovered on Reunion Island including a aircraft window, while French authorities which control the Island denied any new discoveries.
The contradictions only served as a bitter reminder for the next-of-kin of the 239 people who were left confused in the early stages of the search and rescue operation when the aircraft went missing on March 8, 2014.
This was highlighted in New York Times in a scathing article today titled: “Malaysia’s declarations on Flight 370 and plane debris further dent its credibility”.
“Malaysia’s handling of the discovery of a wing part that apparently came from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has worsened frictions with its partners in the investigation, rekindled frustrations among the families of people who were aboard the plane and further dented the country’s battered credibility.
“Many questioned the timing and motives of the Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, who announced in the early hours of Thursday that the wing part had been ‘conclusively confirmed’ to be from the missing plane,” it said.
According to oceanography expert from the University ff Western Australia, Prof Charitha Pattiaratchi, the smaller debris signal that they have been swept to a very large area and this makes it harder for the experts to identify where exactly they had originated from.
“We would not be able to identify the right location of where the MH370 ended,” Charitha said in an interview with Agenda AWANI, over Skype.
The flaperon is the only debris from the MH370 which has been missing for more than 16 months.
A Malaysian expert (centre) looks for debris from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on a beach in Saint-Andre de la Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Photograph: Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images
The Australian-led search for the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will continue scanning the seabed 2,000km west of the Western Australian coastline, despite confirmation a Boeing 777 flaperon found on Réunion Island last week belonged to the missing aircraft.
On Wednesday, the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (Jacc), which is overseeing the underwater search, said it was confident the discovery was consistent with the crash site being within the search area.
Réunion is about 4,000km from the search area, which was doubled to 120,000sq km in April. But the latest ocean drift modelling shows wreckage could be strewn anywhere between the search area and the shores of Madagascar.
“Drift modelling by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation shows that material from the current search area could have been carried to La Réunion, as well as other locations, as part of a progressive dispersal of floating debris through the action of ocean currents and wind,” the Jacc said.
SYDNEY — How hard did Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hit the water after it ran out of fuel and plummeted from cruising altitude? Not as hard as you might think, accident experts say.
The relatively intact condition of the wing piece that washed up on Reunion island off Africa suggests the Boeing Co. 777 may have hit the water more gently than in a head-on crash, according to former US National Transportation Safety Board investigators Mr Greg Feith and Mr Jim Wildey, and Mr Hans Weber, president of aviation consultant Tecop International Inc.
“That piece maintained its integrity. It’s not crushed,” Mr Feith, a former senior investigator with the NTSB, said by phone from Denver. “You can deduce it was either a low-energy crash or a low-energy intentional ditching.”
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“The speculation among pilots right now is that it must have come down at a relatively shallow angle,” said Ms Tracy Lamb, an aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot. “It looks like the flaperon was broken off by the engine pod ripping off as it was dragged through the water on the initial impact.”
Malaysia, France differ on #MH370 plane part, frustrating relatives who are aching for closure http://tdy.sg/1DrObcV
9:29 AM, August 6, 2015
BEIJING — Families aching for closure after their relatives disappeared aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last year vented their deep frustration today (Aug 6) at conflicting signals from Malaysia and France over whether the finding of a plane part had been confirmed.
Malaysia’s prime minister announced that a plane wing section that washed up on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean was “conclusively confirmed” to be from Flight 370, saying he hoped the news would end “unspeakable” uncertainty for relatives of the 239 people aboard. The announcement was in line with the Malaysian conclusion that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, killing all aboard.
But French officials with custody of the wing part said only that there were strong indications the barnacle-encrusted part — known as a “flaperon” — was from the flight and that they would work further to try to confirm the finding today.
“Why the hell do you have one confirm and one not?” asked Christchurch, New Zealand, resident Sara Weeks, whose brother Paul Weeks was aboard the flight, which disappeared March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. “Why not wait and get everybody on the same page so the families don’t need to go through this turmoil?”
“After 17 months, we need definite answers. We need to progress, get answers, move toward further answers, and get some closure along the line,” Weeks said.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has confirmed the wreckage found on the South Indian island of Reunion is that of MH370.
“Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.
“We now have physical evidence as I announced last year that flight MH370 tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean,” he said.
Najib hoped the confirmation would give closure to the families of those who perished in the tragic accident.
MH370 investigators find pieces of possible debris on La Reunion
Malaysian officials retrieve several small white objects and what appears to be a wooden item from a similar area to where Lbeach cleaners found a Boeing 777 wing part on a Réunion.
A Malaysian official, who asked not to be named, confirms his four-man team was scouring the coastline around Saint-Andre and retrieved a number of objects, which would be handed over to French experts.
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The Malaysian contingent has been on the island since Saturday, and are directly reporting to French authorities, he confirmed. “We are just walking the beach looking for anything of interest, which could help in the investigation,” the official said.
The chief of the French Civil Aviation Authority for Réunion was present as the teams carried away the debris, which will be now undergo further analysis.
Officials from both countries said they were awaiting “the news” from France on Wednesday, where it’s expected a report on the recovered plane flaperon will be released.
But the Malaysian investigator urged against pre-empting any conclusions from the experts Toulouse. “We don’t want to raise expectations of the next-of-kin who have already gone through a lot already,” he said.
He said most people on the island had a “positive attitude” and had proved willing to help the investigation however they could.
The Malaysian investigation team will stay on Réunion “as long as it takes”, he added.
Malaysian team recovered two bags of debris, inc small white pieces and what appeared to be a wooden object #MH370
The officials took away several small white objects and what appeared to be a wooden item, from a similar area to where Réunion beach cleaners found a Boeing 777 wing part last Thursday. “We don’t know what it is, they’re just pieces of interest,” the official said.
KUALA LUMPUR — A local lawyer on the French island of Reunion found two mineral water bottles from Malaysia among debris from the Indian Ocean washed ashore amid an ongoing search for the clues to the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went missing over a year ago.
In an interview with Australian daily Herald Sun, Mr Philippe Creissen said he found three mineral water bottles while walking along the Bois Rouge beach; two of them bore made in Malaysia labels while the third was from Taiwan.
“I walk along this beach all the time and 99 per cent of the debris that is here comes from Reunion,” Mr Creissen was quoted as saying in the Melbourne-based publication.
The foreign-made mineral water bottles caught his eye, more so following the discovery of an airline wing part that has been confirmed to be from a Boeing 777, the same model plane as MH370.
New debris found in Reunion confirmed as “a domestic ladder”, not a plane part: Official http://tdy.sg/1MDHh6p
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8:53 PM, August 2, 2015
PARIS — A senior Malaysian official says that an object found in Reunion has been confirmed as “a domestic ladder” and is not a plane part, amid media reports that a new piece of plane debris was found on the island.
Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told The Associated Press that a piece of debris found on a beach near the town of Saint-Denis on Sunday morning had nothing to do with the investigation involving the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Mr Rahman said “I’m the one leading the investigation in France for the analysis of the (wing flap) piece brought back. I read all over media it (the new debris) was part of a door. But I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority, and people on the ground in Reunion, and it was just a domestic ladder.” AP
Missing plane draws eyes to land of molten lava and killer sharks — Reunion Island http://tdy.sg/1IxoKCw
Many of the 800,000 residents have been overwhelmed by the attention placed on their island, where big local stories are usually about shark attacks and volcanic eruptions.
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The Piton de la Fournaise, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted at 10.00 am local time (2pm, Singapore time) on Friday, opening up a 800-metre-long crack in its crater and sending hot jets of molten lava spewing up from the peak.
“We heard about the plane but we have our own investigation here,” Mr Villeneuve added, pointing at images of glowing lava and thick plumes of smoke.
It could end up being one of the biggest eruptions since 2007 when tremors in the crater lasted weeks and magma reaching temperatures above 1,000 centigrade flowed all the way into the Indian Ocean.
A plane door has been found washed up on Reunion Island, reports Sky News http://tdy.sg/1KJrlNI
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4:37 PM, August 2, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR — Less than a week after a wing flap suspected to be from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was found on Reunion Island, Sky News today (Aug 2) reported that a plane door has been found washed up on the island’s shores.
The report said the plane door was found in a different location on the island. The wing flap that was found earlier this week is now in France undergoing tests to determine if it is part of the MH370 aircraft.
Malaysian authorities are also in Paris awaiting results.
Police have been handed a piece of debris which could be part of a plane door, according to the man who discovered it on the small Indian Ocean island now at the heart of the search for MH370.
The man found the as yet unidentified object, measuring 27 inches to the authorities on Reunion island on Sunday morning – days after a wing flap belonging to a Boeing 777 was found on its shoreline.
According to AFP, the man believed it to be part of the door – although police originally dismissed the claim.
Meanwhile, officers in a different area of the island collected another piece of debris, measuring about 15 square inches.
Police placed the debris – which has a sort of handle partially covered by leather and is inscribed with two ideograms – in an iron case.
The Piton de la Fournaise is on the other side of the island to Saint-André, where international teams have been flown in to investigate debris washed up on the shore.
But Réunion is just 39 miles long and 28 wide, meaning any wider emergency evacuations could disrupt the operation.
Much of the world may be eagerly awaiting news of the possible wreckage from MH370 today but on the remote island where it was found, all eyes are on another story.
A volcano has started erupting in Réunion, sending lava flows creeping down its flanks as it spews boiling gas in the air.
Local news websiteL’info published the first picture of the activity this morning, reporting that the “spectacular show” started in a remote crater at around 9.30am (6.30am BST).
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Lava flows out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano as it erupts on 31 July
Officials had warned of an imminent eruption at the Piton de la Fournaise yesterday and evacuated the immediate area.
SYDNEY — A mystery that began with the disappearance of a Malaysian plane en route to China that detoured to the waters off Australia’s coast has now spread across the Indian Ocean close to Africa. Next stop: France.
Reunion, an island east of Madagascar where an aircraft part washed up on shore and has been taken into police custody, is a territory of France that sends eight legislators to France’s National Assembly. The piece will be dispatched from Reunion today (July 31) and arrive on the French mainland tomorrow to be examined near Toulouse, France’s Europe1 radio reported on its website.
“It’s a bit difficult when something lands in the great white oceans, because you don’t own the ocean more than 12 miles off your coastline,” Professor Brian O’Keefe, a former vice president of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s general assembly, said by phone from Canberra. “It’s an unusual case where the wreckage is found in a different jurisdiction to the place where the accident is thought to have happened.”
f the investigation shows the piece is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished on March 8, last year with 239 people on board, it won’t help pinpoint the plane’s resting place. It would, though, give fresh momentum to search efforts off the coast of Australia that so far have failed to find any debris from the doomed flight.
(CNN)If confirmed to be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, could a small portion of plane wing discovered on an Indian Ocean island be the clue investigators need to unlock one of aviation’s biggest mysteries?
On the surface, Wednesday’s discovery is what investigators have been waiting for — the first physical piece of evidence since the flight vanished en route to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard.
Planes are stamped with serial numbers to allow parts to be identified and matched to a specific model and aircraft.
“If the part numbers that are stamped on the pieces of the plane still survive, it literally could be a phone call to Boeing or the parts indices to see if it belongs to a 777. And if it belongs to a 777, it is MH370,” said Mary Schiavo, CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Schiavo points out that there have been only five accidents involving Boeing 777s, and the disappearance of MH370 is the only one where debris hasn’t been recovered.
Boeing investigators are confident the debris found on Reunion Island comes from a 777 aircraft because of photos that have been analyzed and a number that corresponds to a 777 component, according to a source close to the investigation.
Investigators from the United States still want to see the debris, believed to be a 777 flaperon, up close to make a final determination, the source said.
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A component number is not the same as a part number, which is generally much longer.
If the identifying numbers are missing, more tests will need to be conducted on the part to determine its origin.
Australian investigators, heavily involved for some time in the search, said they are looking at the barnacles attached to the part that could allow marine biologists to tell how long it has been floating.
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If it is from MH370, will the main search area move?
Unlikely, analysts say.
The discovery of the potential debris off Reunion Island in the west Indian Ocean is consistent with the route of currents in the region and the time it would take for a piece of metal to be washed thousand of kilometers across a vast ocean, experts said.
“It’s possible that it could have drifted that far — certainly it is possible, especially if air was maintained in that particular piece,” said former pilot Les Abend.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said if the piece is from MH370, it would indicate authorities are searching in “roughly the right place.”
The current search is focused deep on the seafloor off Western Australia, along an arc considered by investigators to be the most likely area the plane went down if it turned back toward Malaysia, as indicated by data, and stayed in the air before running out of fuel.
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Will the search area expand?
Potentially.
If the piece is confirmed to be from MH370, searches are likely to be conducted of surrounding islands.
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Will debris found near Reunion led to a rethinking of past theories?
KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS — Government officials and families of passengers lost on a Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished last year with 239 people on board responded warily yesterday to the discovery of possible wreckage from the aircraft washed ashore Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, reluctant to fan hopes after more than a year of fruitless searching.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, whose country has led the search for flight MH370, said the discovery of an airplane part thousands of kilometres from the search area was “a very significant development” but cautioned against concluding that it was from the missing aircraft.
“It is too early to make that judgment,” Mr Truss said at a news conference in Sydney. “But clearly we are treating this as a major lead and seeking to get assurance about what has been found and whether it is indeed linked to the disappearance of MH370.”
UPDATE: Malaysian experts have arrived to study island plane debris, says hotel source http://bit.ly/1KB9LOv
Around 10 Malaysian aviation experts arrived Thursday on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion to investigate the debris. The experts arrived in the morning, left their bags and departed immediately, according to a source in their hotel.
As the world waits to see if the greatest aviation mystery has finally been solved, further images of purported plane debris are being found off the coast of the French island of Reunion.
It is too soon to determine whether the discovery is indeed from the ill-fated aircraft with 239 people on board.
The find is on the opposite end of where the search operation is still going on in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Australia.
However, it does not necessarily mean that the search operation is in the wrong region as the debris would have been washed apart over a period of more than a year.
Malaysiakini compiles the latest developments here as the situation unfolds.
5:15 pm : Australian news portal The Canberra Times reported that remnants of a badly damaged suitcase have been found close to where plane debris was found on Reunion Island.
The portal cited that Journalist Julien Delarue, who works for local paper Journal de Lile de la Reunion, reported on Twitter that what appears to be a suitcase, has been found on the Indian Ocean island, less than a day after islanders discovered a two-metre long piece of debris.
The report included photographs of a local man holding a badly damaged object that appeared to be a “suitcase on wheels”.
French language website Linfo.re reported that a gardener found the bag near where the debris was discovered.
The photographs show the object has two rusted zippers, netting, and frayed cloth that resembles the lining seen on standard items of luggage.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 — Today saw arguably the most exciting development since Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 went missing nearly 18 months ago, with a 2.7m-long piece of debris discovered on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Aviation experts have since speculated that the debris is a “flaperon” marked “BB 670”, most probably from a Boeing 777, which has been encrusted with barnacles.
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A “flaperon” is a combination of a “flap” and “aileron”, which are control surfaces on an aircraft’s wings that allow pilots to control and adjust a plane’s movement by deflecting air stream passing over them.
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The debris was found this morning (Malaysian time) when people were cleaning a beach in Saint-André, on the east coast of Réunion.
Since it was covered in barnacles, it is believed to have been long submerged in water.
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Réunion Island, or La Réunion in French, is part of France’s overseas department situated in the Indian Ocean near the African continent. Despite that, it is considered part of the euro zone.
Réunion is situated east of Madagascar in Southeast Africa, and lies 175 km southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island there.
The island is around 4,200km or about 2,268 nautical miles away from the current search area of MH370.
French aviation expert Xavier Tytelman was the first to point out the similarities between the debris and a flaperon.
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The Australian government has since said that the discovery, should it prove true, is “consistent” with analysis and modeling of the missing plane’s trajectory.
University of Western Australia oceanographer Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi also has produced a drift model made last year of possible areas debris from the plane may float to after it was determined that MH370 had probably crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
The model indicates that within 18 to 24 months of a crash, the debris could have reached the ocean to the east of Madagascar, close to Réunion. MH370 crashed nearly 17 months ago.
However, due to the time between the MH370’s disappearance last year and potential debris discovery, he said it would not be possible to pinpoint the spot where the plane might have gone down.Possible drift of MH370 wreckage model by Prof Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia. Picture courtesy of Prof Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia>
The wreckage, which appears to be part of a wing, was found by people cleaning a beach, leading to widespread media and social media speculation it could be part of the missing plane.
However, Malaysia transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said: “Whatever wreckage found needs to be further verified before we can further confirm whether it belongs to MH370.”
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“At the moment, it would be too premature for the airline to speculate the origin of the flaperon.”
Aircraft manufcaturer Boeing it remained committed to supporting the MH370 investigation and the search for the airplane.
“We continue to share our technical expertise and analysis,” it said.
“Our goal, along with the entire global aviation industry, continues to be not only to find the airplane, but also to determine what happened — and why.”
Malaysia says almost certain debris discovered on Reunion Island is from a Boeing 777 http://tdy.sg/1eC909x
2:13 PM, July 30, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s deputy transport minister said today y that it was “almost certain” that the debris that washed up on La Reunion island in the southern Indian Ocean belongs to a Boeing 777 aircraft.
“It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this,” Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said.
Aviation officials are urgently assessing if a shell crusted wing flap discovered off the South Indian Ocean country of Reunion Island belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The large chunk of debris washed up on the east coast shoreline at Saint Andre on the island, and if it is determined to be from MH370 it will help solve one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time.
And a US official says air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year.
The official says investigators – including a Boeing air safety investigator – have identified the component as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a 777 wing.
The US official spoke on condition they not be named because they aren’t authorised to speak publicly.
“This concave shape is indeed common to the 777 flap design,” one long-time Boeing engineer told the Wall Street Journal.
However, Christian Retournat, a French airforce official based on the island, told CNN: “It is way too soon to say whether or not it is MH370. We just found the debris this morning.”
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau was notified by French officials on Reunion Island late on Wednesday (AEST) of the discovery of what appears to be part of a wing.
The ATSB is working with the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing, to identify if it is from MH370.
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