Debris on beach ‘almost certainly’ from lost jet
DEBRIS found washed up on beaches in Mauritius and South Africa are “almost certainly” from missing flight MH370, officials said yesterday.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.
The find backs up the theory the aircraft ditched in the Indian Ocean, thousands of miles off course.
The two new pieces were an engine cowling piece with a Rolls-Royce logo and an interior panel from an aircraft cabin, the first interior part found.
The fragments are being examined by Australian aeronautical experts.
Five pieces of debris have now been identified in recent weeks – all discovered thousands of miles from the search zone where three ships are scoring a 75,000 square mile area of the southern Indian Ocean. They were probably carried by strong currents.