Investigators for missing Malaysia flight meet in Paris after arrival of wing
Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said he was informed that only Malaysia, France and plane manufacturer Boeing would jointly inspect the debris stored at Toulouse at this point, adding that he was unaware if other agencies are also involved.
It came amid reports that a plane door is now the second suspected piece of MH370 debris to be found on the Indian Ocean island.
Malaysian officials said they are reaching out to authorities in territories near Reunion Island to allow experts to conduct more substantive analysis should more debris surface.
The discovery of a piece of wreckage confirmed to come from a Boeing 777 last Wednesday sparked fevered speculation that it may be the first tangible evidence that the missing plane crashed into the Indian Ocean.
Malaysia’s transport ministry says it now wants to expand the search for more debris around Reunion.
The latest find comes as the wing part that was found earlier on Reunion arrived at a French laboratory for analysis.
‘But I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority, and people on the ground in Reunion, and it was just a domestic ladder.’.
French air crash investigators have met with Malaysian officials to co-ordinate the probe into missing flight MH370.
Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday that it had been confirmed as being from a 777 plane. Most of the victims were Chinese.
In one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history, MH370 inexplicably veered off course in March 2014 and disappeared from radars, sparking a colossal hunt that has until now proved fruitless. The “flaperon” was escorted to the DGA TA aeronautical testing site near Toulouse, southern France, by police motorcycles and a police vehicle.
The 6-foot-long part, wrapped in a box and shipped as cargo, was flown from the small island of Reunion, near Madagascar, and then transported by truck to the French military site in southwestern France.
A church service was held at Cambuston church in Saint-Andre on Saturday in memory of the 239 people on board the flight.
A fragment of luggage also found will be taken to a unit near Paris specialising in DNA tests.