5 key developments since MH370 vanished two years ago

Luke Skywalker · Mar 3, 2016

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[h=4]5 key developments since MH370 vanished two years ago[/h]Malaysia says there*is a "high possibility" that a*piece of*debris found is from*a*Boeing 777.

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Officials believe a piece of debris that washed up on the shores of Mozambique this weekend belongs to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Boeing 777 jet that went missing nearly two years ago with 239 people on board. Wochit

A photo taken on March 3, 2016 shows a piece of suspected aircraft wreckage found off the east African coast of Mozambique.(Photo: Adrien Barbier, AFP/Getty Images)

A piece of plane debris found on a sandbar off the east coast of Africa*will be taken to Australia to determine whether it is part of the doomed Malaysia*Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared almost two years ago, the Australian transportation minister says.
The Boeing 777 vanished from radar March 8, 2014, while flying over the Indian Ocean en route from*Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.
Here are the major developments since:
Blaine Gibson tells the Associated Press he was*searching for debris off the coast of Mozambique*last weekend when his boat operator directed him to a piece emblazoned with the words "No Step." Australian transport minister Darren Chester says the*location of the debris is "consistent with drift modeling" based on ocean currents, although Flight 370 is believed to have crashed thousands of miles to the east. Malaysian officials say the debris was consistent with parts from Boeing 777s.
A "flaperon," or part of a wing, is found on the French island of*Reunion in the Indian Ocean.*The island is about 3,500 miles southwest of*Malaysia. A month later French authorities confirm*the flaperon is from MH370. An object found on the island a short time later, thought to possibly be part of a door on the plane,*turns out to be*a ladder with no connection to the missing jet.*An intensive search of the area finds no additional pieces of the plane.
Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center, which is coordinating*the search effort, expands the target area to 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean. Officials from*Australia, China and Malaysia agree to double the primary search area after a sweep of most of the initial area nears completion. JACC says it hopes to complete the search by mid-2016.
The battery designed to drive the locator beacon on the plane's flight data "black box" expired more than a year before the flight, Malaysian officials say*in an interim report on the investigation. The report also indicates*investigations on the crew and passengers found nothing suspicious. Many families of the victims mark*the anniversary with memorials.*Most of the passengers were from China, and many refuse to consider the victims deceased because no bodies have been found.
The Malaysian government issues a formal declaration that the loss of the plane is an accident and that everyone aboard is presumed dead. The declaration is needed for the the airline and insurers to arrange compensation for*families of the victims.*"It is therefore, with the heaviest heart and deepest sorrow that, on behalf of the Government of Malaysia, we officially declare Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident ... and that all 239 of the passengers and crew on board MH370 are presumed to have lost their lives,"*civil aviation director Azharuddin Abdul Rahman says.
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