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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.

Boeing said Friday it will send a technical team to France to study plane debris that authorities increasingly believe is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014.

Aviation investigators still have to make a definitive judgment on whether the item, which appears to be a wing component, is from the Malaysian jetliner that disappeared almost 17 months ago with 239 people aboard.

“They have informed me”, Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on Friday.

“If it points to a Boeing 777, it has to have come from MH370”, Peter Clark told TVNZ’s Breakfast.

The debris, found in the Indian Ocean Wednesday, appears to have come from a Boeing 777 – the model that was Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 when it disappeared a year ago.

The death toll in the building collapse in Thane, Maharashtra, has now gone up to 4.