More Plane Debris Washes Up On Réunion Island

The flaperon is officially identified as being part of #Boeing 777.

Mr Rahman, who is leading the analysis of the wing flap in France, said: “I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority, and people on the ground in Reunion, and it was just a domestic ladder”.

The jetliner vanished on March 8, 2014 after leaving Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Beijing. Official analysis is expected to begin Wednesday.

“It still can not help you find the plane“, he told CNN.

But even if it is confirmed to be a part of the lost passenger jet, Wang says it won’t change much for him.

“The preference would be to get a direct, physical link between this flaperon and MH370” in order to give “absolute certainty to the families”, said Martin Dolan, the head of the Australian agency that’s coordinating the underwater search for the aircraft’s remains.

But it’s unlikely to solve the puzzle of why the plane turned sharply off its scheduled flight path or where it exactly in the Indian Ocean it ended up.

A piece of wreckage, believed to be from an aircraft’s flaperon, had washed up in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

The remnants of a suitcase, which were discovered on the Reunion coast the day after the flaperon, is being sent to criminal research institute in Pontoise, outside Paris. On Monday, an investigating judge will meet with Malaysian authorities and representatives of the French aviation investigative agency, known as the BEA.

But Australia said in June that “in the absence of credible new information that leads to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft”, it won’t be expanded any further.

Malaysian government officials will ask territories near Reunion to alert them if they find any debris that could be from a plane, a transport ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.

Suggestions that a door from the missing plane had also been found on a beach near the town of Saint-Denis were dismissed by Malaysian director general of civil aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman.

“We are giving our full support since the debris has been found on Reunion Island“, said Mauritius Police Sgt.

About two-thirds of those aboard Flight 370 were Chinese.