Tanzania debris 鈥榟ighly likely鈥 from missing MH370
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A PIECE of debris found in Tanzania is “highly likely” to be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia’s transport minister said yesterday, as he defended the Indian Ocean search efforts.
The large wing part was brought to Canberra for analysis after it was found by locals on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania last month.
In a statement, Australia’s Transport Minister Darren Chester said “it is highly likely that the latest piece of debris being analyzed by the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370”.
“The experts will continue to analyze this piece to assess what information can be determined from it,” he added.
His comments come a year after a large piece of wing debris was found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and positively identified by French officials as originating from the flight, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people onboard, most of them Chinese.
Australian officials have determined that four other pieces of debris found in Mozambique, South Africa and Mauritius almost certainly came from the plane, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished.
But as hopes of finding MH370’s final resting place fade after two years of searching, and with speculation that the crash zone may be slightly north of the search area, Chester defended the long-running and difficult underwater probe. He said the debris was found in areas consistent with drift modelling done by Australian scientists.
This “affirms the focus of search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean,” he added.
Australia is leading the hunt for the missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,600 kilometers off its west coast capital of Perth, after satellite data indicated the plane went down somewhere in that remote and stormy area.
As it stands, the combing of the 120,000 square kilometer search zone is expected to be finished by December, Chester added.
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