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INCREASING aircraft. It is lightweight THE NEXT STEPS
and has sealed chambers, The plane debris will be transported
making it buoyant. to France on Friday evening, a
spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s
confidence plane New debris, which office said.
washed ashore Thursday Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said the
and appears to resemble piece is expected to arrive in Paris
on Saturday and will then be sent to
wreckage is from remnants of a suitcase, the city of Toulouse, where aviation
is also part of the investigators will analyze it next week.
investigation, Reunion Malaysia, which is responsible for the
Island police officials overall investigation into MH370’s
disappearance, is sending teams of
MH370, Australian confirmed. aviation officials to Toulouse and
But Australian Deputy Reunion, the country’s Prime Minister
said Thursday.
official says Prime Minister Warren It’s unclear when the identification
Truss said officials were process will be completed and its
less sure that “the bag results announced.
“I understand that the photographs that
has anything to do with are available are of such detail that it
may be possible to make identification
MH370” than they are without further physical examination,”
Truss said Friday.
about the plane wreckage.

Teams in Reunion have

continued to search the

OFFICIALS are expressing growing have been analyzed and a stenciled stretch of coast where the

confidence that the piece of wreckage number that corresponds to a 777 debris was found.

found on the shores of a remote Indian c o m p o n e n t .

Ocean island this week is part of missing A component

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. number is not

Martin Dolan, the head of the Australian the same as a

agency coordinating the underwater part number,

search for the plane, said that he is which is

“increasingly confident, but not yet g e n e r a l l y

certain” that the debris is from MH370. much longer.

Authorities are “highly confident” that Images of

the object found Wednesday by people the debris

cleaning a beach on the French island also appear

of Reunion is from a Boeing 777, Dolan to match

said, and “the only 777 aircraft that s c h e m a t i c

we’re aware of in the Indian Ocean that d r a w i n g s

could have led to this part floating is for the

MH370.” right wing

Aviation investigators still have to f l a p e r o n

make a definitive judgment on whether from a

the item, which appears to be a wing Boeing 777.

component, is from the Malaysian A flaperon

jetliner that disappeared nearly 17 h e l p s

months ago with 239 people aboard. the pilot

Malaysia’s Deputy Minister of control the

Transport, Abdul Aizis Kaprawi,

weighed in Friday, saying the part

“most certainly belongs to a Boeing

777,” but he didn’t draw any more

direct connection between the part and

the missing flight.

If it is confirmed, the piece of wreckage

would be the first bit of physical

evidence recovered from MH370. It

could help resolve some questions

about the deeply puzzling fate of the

aircraft but is likely to leave many

others still unanswered.

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Boeing investigators are confident
that the debris discovered on Reunion,
which lies roughly 700 kilometers (435
miles) east of Madagascar, is from a
777 aircraft, according to a source close
to the investigation.
The source said Boeing investigators
are basing their view on photos that

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