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MH370: debris ‘very likely’ to be part of plane – but does it solve mystery?

mh370The official leading the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has said debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is “very likely” to be part of the missing plane.

Martin Dolan, who heads the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, told the BBC he was “increasingly confident” the piece of metal, about two metres square in size, was a “flaperon” from a Boeing 777.
The only recorded case of a missing 777 flaperon, a wing component, is MH370, which disappeared in March last year on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

However, experts have voiced caution over suggestions the discovery would solve the mystery of what happened to the plane.
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Source: The Week