Updated 01:19 AM EDT, Fri, Mar 29, 2024

MH370 Debris Found on Indian Ocean Island? French Authorities to Verify

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On Thursday, Malaysia's Transport Ministry announced that more parts from the MH370 --the plane that has been missing since March 2014 - have washed up on a small island in the Indian Ocean.

The parts, which were described by the Malaysians as windows, sit cushions, and aluminum were believed to be part of the plane.

The pieces will have to be tested by the same international team of experts that is to confirm the authenticity of a piece of wing from the plane that was found just recently, reported CNN.

The recovered wing part called the flaperon, is being analyzed at a military laboratory in the French City of Toulouse, with French, Malaysian, Chinese, and American representatives watching over the process.

Malaysia's Transport Minister, Liow Tiong Lai, said, "They are little parts, but the debris cannot be verified if it belongs to MH370. It has to be verified by the French authorities."

With this, France is preparing to deploy their own resources off to La Reunion in search for more wreckage and debris, reported the Australian Broadcasting Company.

The ministers of Defense, Transport, and Overseas Territories said in a joint statement, "It has been decided, at the request of the president and the prime minister and to respond to the needs of the inquiry, to deploy supplementary air and sea resources to search for the possible presence of new debris around Reunion."

MH370 has been missing for over a year as it veered off-course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying with it 239 people on board.

According to the BBC, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot has said that the "baffling mystery" of the missing aircraft is close to being solved.

However, relatives of the missing people on board say that the find proves nothing.

Lee Khim Gatt, whose wife was a flight attendant on the plane said, "I'm not convinced by the finding. I want to see an item that I can recognise."

There are also others who believed that there has been a cover-up.

Mr. Zhang, who lost his daughter on the flight, said, "I don't believe this latest information about the plane, they have been lying to us from the beginning."

Despite many of the aircraft's parts likely to be submerged underwater by now, Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau still has high hopes for the search. He told CNN, "If the aircraft is in that area, which is highly probable, then we will find it."

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