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DEBRIS IDENTIFIED. This combination of three photos released by the Australian Transport Safety Bu-
reau (ATSB) shows a piece of aircraft debris stored at the ATSB laboratory in Canberra, Australia. Malaysian and
Australian officials say the piece of an aircraft wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been iden-
tified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The piece of wing flap was found in May and subse-
quently analyzed by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the
plane in a remote stretch of ocean off Australia’s west coast. The arrow and markings on the photo are provided
by the source. (Australian Transport Safety Bureau via AP)
Wing part found on Mauritius
confirmed to be part of MH370
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A
piece of an aircraft wing found on the
Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been
identified as belonging to missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian
and Australian officials have confirmed.
The piece of wing flap was found in May
and subsequently analyzed by experts at
the Australian Transport Safety Bureau,
which is heading up the search for the
plane in a remote stretch of ocean off
Australia’s west coast. Investigators used
a part number found on the debris to link it
to the missing Boeing 777, the agency said
in a statement. Malaysian transport
minister Liow Tiong Lai also confirmed
the identification.
Several pieces of wreckage from the
plane have washed ashore on coastlines
around the Indian Ocean since the aircraft
vanished with 239 people on board during
a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to
Beijing on March 8, 2014.
So far, none of the debris has helped nar-
row down the precise location of the main
underwater wreckage. Investigators need
to find that in order to locate the flight data
recorders that could help explain why the
plane veered so far off course.
Search crews are expected to finish their
sweep of the 46,000 square-mile search
zone in the Indian Ocean by December.
Oceanographers have been analyzing
wing flaps found in Tanzania and on the
French island of La Reunion to see if they
might be able to identify a potential new
search area through drift modelling. But
any new search would require more
funding; Malaysia, Australia, and China
said in July that the $160 million hunt will
be suspended once the current stretch of
ocean is exhausted unless new evidence
emerges that would pinpoint a specific
location of the aircraft.
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