Part of a Boeing 777 has been found near Mozambique, sparking a breakthrough in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
It has been almost two years since Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing.
Falling off the radar, the plane disappeared into the abyss – only one trace of the plane has been discovered in that time – a part washing up on the shore of Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar.
Today, we wake up to the news that there is a “high possibility” a new piece that has washed up near Mozambique could be that of the missing Boeing 777.
Malaysia’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said the part was “yet to be confirmed and verified”, but also tweeted the likelihood of the piece belonging to the presumed fallen jet.
“Based an early reports, high possibility debris found in Mozambique belongs to a B777.”
The part was discovered by a US writer who has been blogging about the missing plane.
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“He said he had been walking on the beach two days ago and found the piece near Vilankulo, on a sand bank called Paluma near Benguerra Island (part of the Bazaruto archipelago),” Joao de Abreu, president of Mozambique’s Civil Aviation Institute (IACM) said in a statement.
The piece was found in the same corner of the Southern Indian Ocean where the only other confirmed piece – a flaperon – was found back in July last year.
MH370 had 239 people on board and was bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when it went missing.
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