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MH370 search: Investigators confirm debris from plane but say they are still no nearer to discovering truth
MH370 disappeared in 2014 while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board
Simon Calder
The deepest mystery in aviation history has taken another twist. As the relatives of those lost aboard flight MH370 prepare to mark two years since their loved ones disappeared, a piece of wreckage washed ashore on a sandbank off the coast of Mozambique is thought to be from the missing plane.
A US official told CNN that the debris found in the Indian Ocean is probably a piece of horizontal stabiliser skin from a Boeing 777. If that proves correct, it is highly likely that the source is the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The last contact with the plane took place at 1.19am, when the captain acknowledged air-traffic control with the words “Good Night Malaysian three-seven-zero”.
It took the airline a further six hours to tell the world that one of its planes was missing. No distress messages were sent.
The location of the latest find, on an Indian Ocean shore, is consistent with the only confirmed wreckage from the plane, discovered on Reunion Island last July.
Malaysia Airlines said that until the latest find had been identified, it was “too speculative” to comment.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-still-no-nearer-to-discovering-a6907731.html
MH370 disappeared in 2014 while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board
Simon Calder
The deepest mystery in aviation history has taken another twist. As the relatives of those lost aboard flight MH370 prepare to mark two years since their loved ones disappeared, a piece of wreckage washed ashore on a sandbank off the coast of Mozambique is thought to be from the missing plane.
A US official told CNN that the debris found in the Indian Ocean is probably a piece of horizontal stabiliser skin from a Boeing 777. If that proves correct, it is highly likely that the source is the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The last contact with the plane took place at 1.19am, when the captain acknowledged air-traffic control with the words “Good Night Malaysian three-seven-zero”.
It took the airline a further six hours to tell the world that one of its planes was missing. No distress messages were sent.
The location of the latest find, on an Indian Ocean shore, is consistent with the only confirmed wreckage from the plane, discovered on Reunion Island last July.
Malaysia Airlines said that until the latest find had been identified, it was “too speculative” to comment.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-still-no-nearer-to-discovering-a6907731.html