Debris found matches missing Malaysian Airlines flight

This is despite Australia’s announcement yesterday that the confirmation would not alter current search operations.

Malaysia today asked experts to further analyse and provide more details to teams probing the missing flight MH370, a day after France said a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was part of the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished over a year ago with 239 people aboard.

“We have been working on the assumption that the flaperon was associated with MH370”, Dolan said. “It is helpful to have formal affirmation of this, so it is good for us”.

“It hasn’t changed our thinking about the search area“, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau Martin Dolan said in an AFP report. The affirmation came to visit a month after the particles washed up on the shores of the French island, giving rise to hope that the thriller over the aircraft’s disappearance would lastly be solved.

Dolan reportedly stated Friday that Australia was contemplating bringing in new vessels and gear to reap the benefits of the improved climate in the course of the upcoming southern hemisphere summer time. “We haven’t made any decisions on that yet”.

“All we know is that the flaperon at some point became detached from the aircraft and there are a range of possible scenarios from that”.

Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss meanwhile was reported saying that once the area of highest probability had been covered, search operations would end as per agreement with the countries involved. 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.

Flight 370 was little more than an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, to Beijing when communication with air traffic control in the region ceased.