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| Debris Is Probably From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Investigators Say | Debris Is Probably From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Investigators Say |
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| 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. | |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| “The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” Mr. Chester said. | “The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” Mr. Chester said. |
| 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 MH370,” he said in a telephone interview. | |
| He said drift modeling by Australian scientists had indicated that ocean currents were likely to carry debris from the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed, 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; it was later confirmed to be from Flight 370. | |
| In February, Blaine Gibson, an American lawyer and adventurer, found one of the two pieces of debris discovered on Mozambique’s coast, a triangular piece of fiberglass composite. Mr. Dolan said a family from South Africa, on a sailing vacation, found the other piece, and that they had taken it home to Durban before realizing it could be a part of Flight 370, which 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. | 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. |
| Mr. Dolan said that the debris from Mozambique would be analyzed in an attempt to learn more about the plane’s last minutes, but that any new information was unlikely to affect the ongoing search in the southern Indian Ocean. A more detailed report on the debris will be prepared in consultation with the Malaysian authorities, he said. |