Malaysia will seek help from territories near the Indian Ocean
island where a suspected wing part from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was
discovered in an attempt to find more plane debris.
A new
piece of debris, meanwhile, found on Sunday on the French island of Reunion did
not belong to a plane, Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin
Abdul Rahman told AFP, amid reports that a new part was found.
Rahman,
who is in France for the analysis of the wing part, told AFP one item “was
actually from a domestic ladder. It is not a door”.
And a
source close to the investigation in Paris said “no object or debris likely to
come from a plane” had been placed into evidence on Sunday.
Malaysian
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told AFP that civil aviation authorities were
reaching out to their counterparts in other Indian Ocean territories to be on
the lookout for further debris that could provide “more clues to the missing
aircraft”.
He had
confirmed in a statement that the wing part had been “officially identified” as
from a Boeing 777 – making it likely that it was from the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight, as MH370 is the only missing Boeing 777.
The
identification was verified by French authorities together with Boeing, the US
National Transportation Safety Board and a Malaysian team.
The
wing flap was found on Wednesday on Reunion. It arrived on Saturday at a French
military testing facility for analysis by experts.
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