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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Investigators to Examine Debris Finds Debris Is Probably From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Investigators Say
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SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian authorities coordinating the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Wednesday that they had begun analyzing two pieces of debris suspected to be from the missing plane and that a third piece recently found in South Africa would also be examined. SYDNEY, Australia — The authorities said Thursday that two pieces of debris found in Mozambique were highly likely to have come from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing for more than two years.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the Malaysian government was working with officials in South Africa to arrange for examination of the debris found there this week, which was “suspected to be the cowling from an engine.” Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, said Tuesday on Twitter that analysis was needed to determine whether the part, which appeared to bear a partial logo from the engine maker Rolls-Royce, came from Flight 370. A third piece of debris, found in South Africa and bearing part of the logo from the engine maker Rolls-Royce, has yet to be analyzed.
Two other pieces of debris, both found in Mozambique in recent weeks, arrived in Australia on Sunday, and experts have begun analyzing them, the Australian officials said Wednesday in a weekly update on the search for the Boeing 777. Darren Chester, the Australian infrastructure and transport minister, said in a statement that an investigation team from Malaysia had found that both pieces of debris were consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft.
So far, only one piece of wreckage — a wing part called a flaperon, found in July on Réunion, a French island east of Madagascar — has been confirmed to be from Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard. The plane disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is believed to have veered off course for reasons unknown, flown south for several hours and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. “The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” Mr. Chester said.
Analysts have said that ocean currents could have carried debris from the plane from there to Mozambique, as they apparently carried the flaperon to Réunion. Four search vessels have been scouring the seabed off the remote southwestern coast of Australia for wreckage from the plane, but none has yet been found there. Martin Dolan, a commissioner at Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau, said there were no serial numbers on the two parts. “But we are very certain these are from MH 370,” he said in a telephone interview.
He said drift modeling by Australian scientists had indicated that ocean currents were likely to carry debris to the coasts of Mozambique and Réunion Island. In July, beachcombers found a wing part known as a flaperon on Réunion, a French island east of Madagascar.
In February, Blaine Gibson, an American lawyer and adventurer, found a triangular piece of fiberglass composite on the coast of Mozambique, and Mr. Dolan said a family from South Africa, on a sailing vacation, had found another piece on the Mozambique coast and had taken it home to Durban before realizing it could be a part of the plane that disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.
The plane vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is believed to have veered off course, flown south for several hours and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. Four search vessels have been scouring the seabed off the remote southwestern coast of Australia for wreckage from the plane, but none has yet been found there.