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[h=4]Official: Latest debris found on island not part of Flight 370[/h]An object found on an Indian Ocean island is not part of a plane door but a generic ladder that has nothing to do with missing Flight 370, a Malaysian officials said.
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A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 arrived at a French military testing facility on Saturday where it will be analyzed by experts. (Aug. 1) AP
Volunteers of the "3 E" (Eastern Environnement and Economy) association usually in charge of costal cleaning, who found a plane debris and a piece from a luggage on July 29, search for more potential plane debris and items on the shore in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, on July 31, 2015.(Photo: Ouissem Gombra, AFP/Getty Images)
An object found on an Indian Ocean island is not part of a plane door but a generic ladder that has nothing to do with missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Malaysian official<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said Sunday.
The debris was found on the island of Reunion, where a piece of a Boeing 777 wing flap was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>found on a beach in the town of Saint Andre on Wednesday.
“I’m the one leading the investigation in France for the analysis of the (wing flap) piece brought back," Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told AFP and other media outlets. "I read all over media it (the new debris) was part of a door. But I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority, and people on the ground in Reunion, and it was just a domestic ladder.”
Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with 239 people aboard.
The item<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was handed to authorities after it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>washed ashore south of the island's capital of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>St Denis in the north, according to the the BBC.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The BBC and Sky News were among outlets initially reporting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the object might be part of an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>aircraft door.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sky News<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said the object<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>discovered in a different location to a wing flap, which was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>found on the northeast of the island on Wednesday.
USA TODAY
Aircraft part could be small piece of Malaysia plane puzzle
The wing flap, suspected to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>be from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, arrived at a testing facility in France on Saturday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The 8-foot-long piece — a flaperon<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was escorted to the DGA TA aeronautical testing site near Toulouse, southern France, by police motorcycles and a police car.
Malaysia’s Transport Minister<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Liow Tiong Lai<span style="color: Red;">*</span>confirmed Sunday that the flaperon had been verified as being<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from a Boeing 777,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the same type of aircraft as Flight 370, which<span style="color: Red;">*</span>disappeared on March 8, 2014 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, en route to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
He said the verification of the part came from French authorities and Boeing. Malaysian officials<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they would seek help from territories near Reunion to try to find more plane debris, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Associated Press reported.
USA TODAY
Malaysia official: Debris 'almost certainly' from a Boeing 777
Aviation security expert Christophe Naudin told France's BFM-TV that just three 777s have crashed since 2013 and the other two were in completely different locations, the AP reported.
"One is in the United States, one in Ukraine, and this one in the Indian Ocean," he said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"In the aeronautic community there is no (doubt) on the issue of what the debris belongs to. We are all convinced that it belongs to this flight (370)."
Experts in Toulouse will begin work to determine whether the part came from the missing Boeing 777 on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor's office said. An investigating judge is due to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>meet with Malaysian authorities and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>French aviation investigative agency (BEA) representatives Monday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Reunion is a French territory.
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