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0:46</s>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia confirms that debris found in Mauritius came from missing Flight 370.</s>Wing part found on Mauritius confirmed to be part of MH370

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A piece of an aircraft wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian and Australian officials said Friday.

The piece of wing flap was found in May and subsequently analyzed by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane in a remote stretch of ocean off Australia’s west coast. Investigators used a part number found on the debris to link it to the missing Boeing 777, the agency said in a statement. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai also confirmed the identification.

Several pieces of wreckage from the plane have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since the aircraft vanished with 239 people on board during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

So far, none of the debris has helped narrow down the precise location of the main underwater wreckage. Investigators need to find that in order to locate the flight data recorders that could help explain why the plane veered so far off-course.

Search crews are expected to finish their sweep of the 120,000 square kilometer (46,000 square mile) search zone in the Indian Ocean by December.

Oceanographers have been analyzing wing flaps found in Tanzania and on the French island of La Reunion to see if they might be able to identify a potential new search area through drift modeling. But any new search would require more funding; Malaysia, Australia and China said in July that the $160 million hunt will be suspended once the current stretch of ocean is exhausted unless new evidence emerges that would pinpoint a specific location of the aircraft.</s>SYDNEY: A piece of wing debris found in Mauritius is from MH370, Australia said Friday, the latest fragment discovered along western Indian Ocean shorelines that has been linked to the missing passenger jet.

The composite debris, recovered from the Indian Ocean island nation in May, “was a trailing edge section of Boeing 777 left, outboard flap, originating from the Malaysian Airlines aircraft registered 9M-MRO (MH370)”, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said in a report.

The government agency is leading the search for the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines plane — which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 passengers and crew — in the southern Indian Ocean far off Western Australia’s coast.

“A part number was identified on a section of the debris,” the ATSB said, adding that another “unique work order number” assigned by the flap manufacturer corresponded to MH370.

The report came two weeks after the ATSB said officials had yet to link debris recovered from Madagascar by US amateur investigator Blaine Gibson to MH370 or a Boeing 777.

Officials also said that the debris found in Madagascar was not exposed to fire, quashing earlier speculation.

No trace of MH370 has been recovered from the current 120,000-square-kilometre (46,000-square-mile) search zone, fuelling speculation it may have crashed outside the area.

But several pieces of debris linked to the flight have been discovered along western Indian Ocean shorelines — in Mozambique, South Africa and Mauritius.

The first piece found was a two-metre (six-foot) wing part known as a flaperon that washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion in July 2015.

More than 110,000 square kilometres of the search area has been scoured so far, Australia said last month, adding that the hunt was set to be completed in December. – AFP</s>PUTRAJAYA: Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) experts have concluded that the debris found on Mauritius island was from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the finding marked the latest piece of debris that had been examined, analysed and confirmed to have originated from aircraft 9M-MRO, also known as MH370, following the confirmation of the Tanzania debris last month.

“From a part number found on a section of the debris, the piece has been identified as a trailing edge splice strap, incorporated into the rear spar assembly of a Boeing 777 left outboard flap. This is also consistent with the appearance and construction of the debris,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Liow added that adjacent to the part number was a second part identifier. He said the flap manufacturer supplied records indicating that the work order number was incorporated into the outboard flap shipset line number 404, corresponds to the Boeing 777 aircraft line number 404, and registered as 9M-MRO (MH370).

Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

The jetliner has yet to be found despite a massive search operation in the southern Indian Ocean, where the aircraft was believed to have ended its flight after diverting from its original route.

On July 22 this year, Malaysia, China and Australia said the search for the missing aircraft would be suspended upon completion of the 120,000 sq km sweep of the ocean. — Bernama</s>BANGKOK: Malaysian activist, Dr Fauziah Mohd Hassan was happy and cheerful when she arrived at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport here following her release by the Israeli regime.

Her arrival in Bangkok from Tel Aviv was greeted by her husband, Professor Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali who had arrived from Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysian Embassy officials in Thailand.

“Dr Fauziah is happy. However, she is not allowed to leave the airport transit area, pending a flight to Kuala Lumpur,” an embassy official told Bernama after her arrival yesterday.

She arrived in Bangkok at 2pm (3pm Malaysian time) via Thai Airways Flight TG4594 from Tel Aviv and proceeded to Malaysia via Flight TG417 at 4pm (5pm Malaysian time).

On Wednesday, 10 women activists, including Dr Fauziah and three crew members who were on board the Zaytouna-Oliva ship on a humanitarian mission, dubbed Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG), were detained at 2.58pm local time (9.58pm Malaysian time) at Ashdod Port, Israel.

Upon arrival at the Ashdod Port, Dr Fauziah was held in Givon prison in Ramla (central Israel) before being transferred to a temporary detention centre at the Ben-Gurion International Airport. – Bernama
Authorities confirm that a wing part found in Mauritius in May is part of the aircraft from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.