Plane debris from South Africa and Mauritius ‘almost certainly’ from missing MH370
The two pieces of plane debris that were found in South Africa and the Mauritian island of Rodrigues are almost certainly from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jetliner, Malaysia’s transport ministry has revealed.
“The team has confirmed that both pieces of debris from South Africa and Rodrigues Island are almost certainly from MH370,” Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said in a statement.
Flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared in March 2014 shortly after take-off from Kuala Lampur carrying 239 passengers and crew. The plane was bound for Beijing China.
Investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the jetliner’s transponder before diverting it thousands of miles off course, out over the Indian Ocean.
Tiong said the findings support results from a previous examination in March, in which the team confirmed that another piece of debris found in Mozambique was almost certainly from MH370.
A first piece of the Boeing 777 washed up on the French island of Reunion in July 2015. Malaysia and French authorities confirmed the flaperon was from the aircraft.
