Two Items Found in the Indian Ocean “Almost Certainly” From MH370

12th May 2016

Two more pieces of debris have been nearly confirmed to belong to the missing MH370 plane, as the Malaysian authorities said that the debris discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island, near Mauritius, were “almost certainly” from it.

This announcement brings the total number of debris items connected with the Malaysia Airlines plane to five. This includes a flaperon that was found last year in June on the French-controlled Reunion Island, near Mauritius, two pieces with stenciled codes found on the coast of Mozambique and the pieces found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island.

 According to Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian minister of transport, the two items were an engine cowling piece and an interior panel from a cabin. The engine, he confirmed, had a partial Rolls-Royce logo on it.

Mr Liow said that a team of experts have examined the two items in Australia and came to the conclusion that the items were consistent with panels found on Boeing 777.

Malaysian minister of transport said:

As such, the team has confirmed that both pieces of debris from South Africa and Rodrigues Island are almost certainly from MH370.

What is MH370 Debris Doing near Africa?

With more and more pieces of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finding its way on and around the coast of Africa, one question begs to be asked – is the search for the plane going on in the wrong spot?

So far, search efforts, led by Australia, China and Malaysia have been mostly fruitless. The search has been going on ever since the plane disappeared on 8^th March, 2014, first on the Gulf of Thailand and later expanding to an area of around 40,000 sq. miles, around 1,100 miles west from the coast of Australia.

A likely explanation as to why none of the debris was found in the search area, but over 3,000 miles from the area where the investigators believe the wreckage will be found is that the ocean currents are bringing the pieces closer to Africa.

 Biologists are examining the marine life attached to the debris, which should give the investigators a good indication as to where the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, but so far they found nothing really useful.