Debris on Mozambican Beach Could be From Lost Malaysian Jet
MAPUTO – Debris from a plane found on a beach in Mozambique could come from the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that went down in 2014 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with the loss of 239 people. The one-metre-long piece of debris with the words “No Step” written on it was found in […]
MAPUTO – Debris from a plane found on a beach in Mozambique could come from the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that went down in 2014 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with the loss of 239 people.
The one-metre-long piece of debris with the words “No Step” written on it was found in a sandbank on the weekend by American Blaine Gibson, according to news reports. A part of the Being 777 was found in 2015on Reunion, which lies on the other side of Madagascar from Mozambique.
“The location of the debris is consistent with drift modelling commissioned by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and reaffirms the search area for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean,” said the minister for infrastructure and transport Darren Chester for Australia, which carried out extensive searches following the loss of the plane.
The debris is apparently be sent to Australia to be examined, news reports said.
Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle, was reportedly searching for the wreckage of the MH370 and has been traveling around the Indian Ocean for a year to try solve the mystery of missing plane. The search has taken him from the Maldives to Mauritius to Myanmar.