Plane wreckage very likely from Boeing 777: Malaysia
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak says the plane wreckage discovered in an Indian Ocean island is very likely from a Boeing 777, amid speculation it could be debris from the missing flight MH370.
"Initial reports suggest that the debris is very likely to be from a Boeing 777, but we need to verify whether it is from flight MH370," said Najib in a Thursday statement posted on his Facebook page.
Malaysia’s Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said earlier in the day that that plane debris washed up on La Reunion Island off the southeastern African coast almost certainly belongs to a Boeing 777, noting that it may be linked to the doomed flight MH370 that vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.
The two-meter long piece of plane debris was discovered on Wednesday by people clearing trails along the shores of the French island in the Indian Ocean.
“It was covered in shells, so one would say it had been in the water a long time,” AFP quoted a witness as saying.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said he has dispatched a team to probe the plane wreckage.
“Whatever wreckage found needs to be further verified before we can ever confirm that it belongs to MH370,” he added.
The MH370 flight went missing shortly after taking off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it deviated from its planned flight route to Beijing.
Following a massive international search for the airliner in the South Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Gulf of Thailand, investigators came up empty handed, eventually concluding that the aircraft had likely flown thousands of kilometers in an unknown direction before crashing.
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