01/08/2015
'A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage that washed up on an Indian Ocean island arrived for analysis in France early Saturday, after Malaysian authorities said the part was almost certainly recovered from missing flight MH370."
© Richard Bouhet, AFP | A wing component leaves the Indian Ocean island of Réunion onboard a Paris-bound Air France flight on July 31, 2015
Article text by FRANCE 24
A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage that washed up on an Indian Ocean island arrived for analysis in France early Saturday, after Malaysian authorities said the part was almost certainly recovered from missing flight MH370.
Witnesses and the Paris Orly airport’s website said the Air France flight transporting the debris landed near the French capital shortly after 6am local time.
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, including four French nationals.
The plane part washed up on Wednesday in Réunion, a French island located near Madagascar. Aviation officials increasingly believe the flaperon belonged to the fated Malaysian Airlines jet.
A Malaysian official on Friday said the serial number on the debris confirmed it came from a Boeing 777, the plane model of the MH370 flight.
Boeing said it would dispatch a technical team to France to help analyse the wing part, with the goal of finding the wreckage and determine the reason it disappeared.
A police es**rt was set to accompany the debris to a defence ministry laboratory near the southwestern city of Toulouse, where experts will begin their analysis on Wednesday.
Parts of a brown suitcase also found near the wing part in Réunion would also be analysed by a police laboratory in Paris, according to French judicial sources.
French and Malaysian investigators are set to hold a meeting in Paris on Monday as part of the deepening probe.
