THERE is a “very strong presumption” that the piece of plane wreckage found on Reunion Island comes from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, a French prosecutor declared on Wednesday after an examination lasting several hours at a military lab in the suburbs of Toulouse, France.
Deputy Paris Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak made the cautious declaration at a press conference in Paris.
“In view of the observations made by the experts, we can say today that there are two reasons why there is a very strong presumption that the fragment found on the beach on Reunion Island on 29 July 2015 does belong to the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014,” said Mackowiak.
Mackowiak said that further analysis would be conducted on Thursday and he couldn’t specify at what time the findings would be revealed.
Just before the Paris press conference, however, Malaysian Prime Minister confirmed that the debris does come from MH370.
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with a total of 239 people on board, most of them Chinese nationals. (Courtesy China Central Television news)