Malaysia seeks help in finding more debris from Flight 370

Air safety investigators, including one from Boeing, have identified the component as a flaperon from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said.

French gendarmes and police inspect a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Sa …

The French aviation experts, including a legal expert from the field, will start their inquiry on Wednesday, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

A plane door was on Sunday found on the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, The Telegraph reported.

According to the BBC, the first piece of wreckage found on the island has been sent to Toulouse, France, where investigators will work to establish whether it is indeed a piece from the missing MH370 plane.

But, Malaysia’s prime minster said the location where the wing part was found is “consistent with the drift analysis provided to the Malaysian investigation team.”

Speaking to The Telegraph, Nicolas Ferrier, a beach cleaner on the island in the Indian Ocean, described how he has found suitcases whilst fulfilling his cleaning duties in the last few months too.

The wing part was discovered last Wednesday and has been taken to mainland France for laboratory tests.

There were 239 passengers and crew on board, and a few families of the casualties are requesting further remuneration from the airline. If the barnacles on the debris are older than the date MH370 went missing, it would rule it coming from that plane, said Melanie Bishop a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University.

“It’s like Hawaii”, said Fadila Hammachi, 55, a French businesswoman who comes to Reunion on holiday every year.

But a Malaysian official – thought to be on the island as part of a search for debris from the doomed flight – has told the Reuters news agency that the object belongs to a “domestic ladder”, not a plane part.

“Malaysia and France share the concern and anxiety of all the next-of-kin in determining the origin of the flaperon in hope of ending the 16-month painful wait for determinative news”, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement after the meeting.

Her voice cracking, a very emotional Bajc said she has consistently distrusted the Malaysian government and that nation’s aviation authorities because she feels the investigation into the plane’s disappearance has been handled poorly.

“The part has not yet been identified and it is not possible at this hour to ascertain whether the part is from a B777 and/or from MH370”.

MH370 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, about 3 700 km (2 300 miles) away from Reunion.

“We are confident, on the basis of continuing refinement, continuing assessment of the satellite data, that the search area is correct”.