MH370 Search: Plane Debris Arrives In Paris

Since then, it’s been the subject of a massive search of the southern Indian Ocean by ships and aircraft from several nations led by Australia, covering thousands of square kilometres with little to show for it.

“We are increasingly confident that this debris is from MH370”, Dolan told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Most of the passengers were Chinese.

“French investigators now hold a key piece of evidence, believed to be a wing part, known as a flaperon, that could be from the missing Boeing 777″.

Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on Friday that the airline had informed him about it. According to experts, the piece of debris looks to be a flaperon, a moveable part on the trailing edge of a wing.

The section of wing was found on the tiny island of La Reunion earlier this week and has been taken to France so experts can check it out and determine if it is from the doomed flight.

He added: “The fact that this wreckage was sighted on the northern part of the Reunion Island is consistent with the current movements” from the search area.

But even if the piece is confirmed to be the first confirmed wreckage from Flight 370, there is no guarantee investigators will find the plane’s vital black box recorders or other debris. To help solve the mystery of the missing Boeing 777, the French authorities have mobilised significant resources to monitor and control the beach and all the objects washed in from the sea. In addition, a tattered suitcase also washed ashore at Réunion, raising the possibility that it may have belonged to one of the 239 people on board the missing airliner.

The island, off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean is also more than 3,000 miles from the search area investigators have been trawling off the coast of Australia.

US intelligence officials compiled a dossier on the final movements of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, reportedly suggesting that the plane was crashed on goal.

The debris should be quickly identified because each piece is numbered in an airplane, according to reports.

“I presume that if this wreckage does turn out to be from a Boeing 777 that the analysts will do their best with regression work to try to work out exactly where it came from”.