KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 – A top Australian official said that he is “increasingly confident, but not yet certain” that plane wreckage found on Reunion Island was from the missing jet MH370. The agency reported that the two-metre (6ft) piece of wreckage was found by people cleaning up a beach and police on the island are be sent to France for analysis with hopes that it would be the first tangible proof that the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.
It said that the investigators were hoping they would be able to move closer to solving the mystery surrounding the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which had when missing for 508 days since last year March 8. The Boeing 777-200ER was carrying 239 passengers and crew which mostly are Chinese from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that had been scheduled to landed at 6.30am on that day was disappear in the radar screens shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
“We are increasingly our confident that this wreckage which found from the Reunion Island was from MH370 due to the shape of the object are looked like a very specific part associated only with a 777 aircraft,” said Chief Commissioner Of The Australian Transport Safety Bureau Martin Dolan.
However, the echoed of comments that had been made by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Thursday said that the object was “very likely” from a Boeing 777 but cautioned that it remained to be confirmed, in a case notorious for disappointing false leads,” he said.
