No evidence any new debris from MH370 was found

The transport minister also said investigators found further suspicious debris on the beaches of Reunion including what seemed to be a plane window and an aluminium foil.

But Liow Tiong Lai says he can not confirm they belong to Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced early Thursday the joint France-Malaysia investigations had confirmed the aircraft flaperon found on the island as originating from the aircraft.

The disappearance created one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation, sparking a colossal hunt in the Indian Ocean based on satellite data, which hinted at MH370’s possible path.

Maintenance records from Malaysia Airlines have now also proven conclusively that the wing part found last week on the island belonged to missing Flight 370.

The 64 year-old, who lost his 32-year-old daughter in the accident, insisted that: “We do not want money, we want to be informed”, he said.

“We expect and hope that there will be more objects found which will be able to help resolve this mystery”, the Beijing office said.

French and Malaysian experts on Wednesday began examining an airplane wing fragment that could offer the first tangible clue about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished more than a year ago with… “We respect their decision”, Liow said of the French.

However, endless months of searching had failed to turn up any evidence of the missing aircraft until the two-metre-long portion of a Boeing 777 wing, known as a flaperon, was found washed ashore on Reunion Island last week, some 4-thousand kilometers where the search for the missing plane has been focused. Many family members, such as Australian George Burrows, whose son Rodney Burrows was on board MH370, were notified of the finding by text message.

Boeing said in a statement that its technicians were assisting in the analysis of the part but declined to comment on the results of the examination.

The analysis of the piece could take weeks, and experts said it nearly certainly wouldn’t be enough to answer the fundamental enigma of the flight: Why did a sophisticated jet, flying in calm weather, cease most communication with the outside world, turn off course and fly for thousands of miles over the Indian Ocean? French authorities, however, have been more circumspect about the discovery.

The recovered flaperon, part of a Boeing 777’s wing, is being analysed by experts at a military laboratory in the French city of Toulouse in the presence of French, Malaysian, Chinese and American representatives. Reunion is about 3,700km to the west from where the plane is believed to have crashed.

Australian authorities, who have led a multinational search for the ill-fated plane, expressed renewed confidence that the frustrating search for MH370 was on the right track.