(Courtesy China Central Television) — More information is needed to confirm what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, even if the wreckage found near the Reunion Island is verified as from the missing plane, a French aerospace professor said on Monday.
The wreckage was discovered near Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean late Friday and has been confirmed to be part of a Boeing 777, the same aircraft type used for flight MH370. The wreckage arrived in Toulouse, France on Saturday for further verification, which due to begin on Wednesday at the Aeronautical Technologies Center of the General Directorate of Armament (DGA), under the French Defense Ministry. Founded in 1949, the facility has been a major ground test center in Europe for civil and military aircraft.
“The center tests all aircraft made in France, including the Concorde and Airbus planes. It tests every part of the aircraft,” said Pascal Roches, a professor with the School of Aerospace Engineering in Toulouse.
Roches added more information is still required to confirm the fate of the missing plane.
“I doubt that we can know everything about the accident from such a piece of wreckage. I think we still need more parts and objects from the plane to find out what happened, what had caused that to happen, and where the plane is. Now we only have one piece of wreckage, it is too small compared with the size of the aircraft,” he said. (CCTV news)
