Part Number ‘Confirms’ Debris is From Malaysian Boeing 777

The analysis is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, 5 August.

Following the discovery of what is thought to be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, one of the wing flaps recovered from the sea was transported to a French military testing facility.

United States aerospace giant Boeing said in a statement on Friday that it would send a technical team to France to study the plane debris, at the request of the civil aviation authorities. But we do not want to speculate. “So we’ll be able to eliminate certain scenarios thanks to these indicators, rather than build one”, said Aeronautics expert Bertrand Vilmer from the French Appeal Court. This further instigates the speculation that the part may be from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, disappeared on March 8, 2014. Four of 239 people on board MH370 were French.

Investigators say somebody on board the airliner manually turned off the plane’s electronic transponder before diverting it thousands of miles off course.

The debris will be analysed at a lab staffed by 600 experts that is operated by the defence ministry near Toulouse.

Based on a part number visible in pictures, Boeing workers the debris came from a 777, the same type of plane as MH370, reported by a US official.

Malaysia’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Abdul Aizis Kaprawi, weighed in Friday, saying the part “most certainly belongs to a Boeing 777”, but he didn’t draw any more direct connection between the part and the missing flight. Family members of the passengers have been putting pressure on their governments in Malaysia and China to release more information on the results of several ongoing investigations of the tragedy.

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015.

Incidentally, MH370 is the only Boeing 777 unaccounted for and for the same reason, chances are high that the debris is indeed from the missing plane.

“In a sense, this is the first positive sign that we have located part of that plane”, Ms Bishop told Channel Seven today.

Ms Bishop said Australia remained determined to locate the main debris field.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told AFP that the part “could be a very important piece of evidence”, but it is “almost impossible” to trace back the debris to the place it has drifted from.