KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 – Malaysia had send a team of investigators to the Maldives to examine the fragments that had been founded on the island are likely from the MH370. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said, however, “still too early” to speculate that the fragment is linked to Malaysia Airlines.
“Malaysia has been officially informed by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Maldives on the findings debris. At present there is no confirmation about the chip. We will be sending a team to the Maldives to assess the debris and also perform the initial validation,” Liow said in a statement on Monday.
He called on all parties not to speculate because it “would cause unnecessary pressure” to the heirs and relatives of the 239 passengers and crew aboard the plane which the Flight MH370 had disappeared from radar scans on March 8 last year while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
On 6 August, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that flaperon (aircraft wing components) that are found in France’s Reunion Island is the MH370. According to maintenance records by Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the approval markings (seal) that is technical in flaperon between evidence to show that the aircraft components owned by the investigating yanag flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
