This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33750811
The article has changed 9 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
Version 2 | Version 3 |
---|---|
MH370 search: 'Second plane part' found on Reunion | MH370 search: 'Second plane part' found on Reunion |
(about 1 hour later) | |
A second piece of suspected plane debris has washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, after a wing part suspected to come from the missing flight MH370 was found on Wednesday. | A second piece of suspected plane debris has washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, after a wing part suspected to come from the missing flight MH370 was found on Wednesday. |
The object, believed to be the door of an aircraft, was discovered just south of the city of St Denis. | The object, believed to be the door of an aircraft, was discovered just south of the city of St Denis. |
It is said to have writing on it and possibly some illustration. | It is said to have writing on it and possibly some illustration. |
The Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared last March with 239 people on board. | |
Malaysia's transport ministry says it now wants to expand the search for more debris around Reunion. | |
Boeing 777 | |
An Australian-led search effort for the plane has so far focused on a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean about 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the east of Reunion. | |
No physical trace of the aircraft has been found. | |
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know | |
MH370: Behind the tenacious deep-sea hunt for missing plane | |
However, Malaysia's transport minister has confirmed that the object found on a beach at St Andre on Wednesday is a wing flap from a Boeing 777 - the same type of aircraft as the one that vanished. | |
"This has been verified by French authorities together with aircraft manufacturer Boeing," Liow Tiong Lai said on Sunday. | |
The piece has gone to France, where investigators in the city of Toulouse will seek to establish if it came from MH370. They will begin their work this Wednesday. | |
Fragments of a suitcase found on the same beach are also to be examined. | |
The centre in Toulouse was also involved in analysing debris from the Air France flight AF447, which crashed on the way to Paris from Brazil in 2009, killing 228 people. | |
Investigators believe MH370 veered off course on the way to Beijing and crashed into the sea - but they do not know why. | |
In January Malaysian authorities declared that all on board were presumed dead. | |
Its estimated last location was based on "pings" sent from the aircraft that were detected by satellite. | Its estimated last location was based on "pings" sent from the aircraft that were detected by satellite. |
Simulation of where debris in search area could end up |