Examination and analysis of two parts found on the east African coast was carried out in Australia by international experts, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) announced in an update. The Malaysian ICAO Safety Investigation Team has advised that: the dimensions, materials and construction of both parts conform to the specifications of a Boeing 777…
Two pieces of debris recently discovered along the coast of Mozambique are “highly likely” to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said Thursday. An analysis of the parts by an international investigation team showed both pieces are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, Transport Minister Darren Chester…
A South African archaeologist has found a piece of debris with part of an aircraft engine manufacturer’s logo and Malaysia’s transport minister said Tuesday that authorities will examine it to see if it is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. “Based on early reports, there is a possibility of the piece originating from an…
Some extremely serious doubts about the origins of two pieces of suspected debris from MH370 have been raised by US science writer Jeff Wise, as they arrived today in Australia for analysis. The fragments in question, found on the Indian ocean shores of Mozambique in December and February, appeared to be genuine Boeing 777 parts,…
Several objects that could be debris from a Boeing 777 has been found off Mozambique and Reunion island are being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Photos of debris found off Mozambique The man who found the piece of Boeing 777 wreckage off the Mozambique coast has been traveling around the…
The UN’s aviation agency has announced real-time tracking of airliners will be introduced to stop a disappearance like that of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 two years ago. The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal adopted new measures requiring aircraft to have tracking devices that can transmit location information at least once…
If the hunt for MH370 doesn’t turn up anything over the next few months, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the search of a 46,000-square-mile swath of the Indian Ocean will likely be called off by July, NBC News reports. Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan says the Malaysian, Chinese, and Australian governments, who…
EditA resident on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion who last year found a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on Sunday he had come across a second possible piece from the missing plane. Johnny Begue, who found the “flaperon” part while cleaning a beach last July, told AFP he handed over…
The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER in the southern Indian Ocean has covered over 80,000 square kilometres, and is likely wind up in June 2016 if the aircraft is not found. Two vessels, Fugro Discovery and Havila Harmony, are presently in the search area, says Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JAAC) in…
Underwater search of Indian Ocean is still yet to locate the missing Boeing 777 which went missing over 21 months ago in March 2014. The flight took off with 239 passengers and crew to Beijing when ATC lost contact with it. Search is now the largest and most expensive in aviation history. Malaysia has spent…
New insights into the search for missing Boeing 777, and what happens the moment the jet is found, were explained at a briefing for members of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute in Perth recently. Paul Kennedy, MH370 Search Project Director, Fugro Survey, took the audience through the same induction video shown to recruits before…