MALAYSIA-AIRLINES/FRANCE-PROSECUTOR French prosecutor says wing part very likely from MH370

Record ID: 145031

  • Title: MALAYSIA-AIRLINES/FRANCE-PROSECUTOR French prosecutor says wing part very likely from MH370
  • Date: 5th August 2015
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (AUGUST 5, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF COURTHOUSE FRENCH DEPUTY PROSECUTOR, SERGE MACKOWIAK, ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH DEPUTY PROSECUTOR, SERGE MACKOWIAK, SAYING: "In light of the examination carried out by the experts, we can say today that there is a very strong presumptio
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA79G4VWE0KHYZ58VJXU9WX4UK8
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  • Story Text: Experts examining a piece of debris that washed up on Reunion Island have reached a "very strong presumption" that it comes from a missing Malaysian jetliner but their finding still needs to be confirmed, a French prosecutor said on Wednesday (August 5).
    Deputy Paris prosecutor Serge Mackowiak told reporters that a fragment of suitcase also found on the island would be subjected to forensic examination by French police as soon as possible.
    "In light of the examination carried out by the experts, we can say today that there is a very strong presumption that the flaperon found on the beach in La Reunion on July 29, 2015 does belong to the Boeing 777 of flight MH370," he told a press conference in Paris.
    Experts based their conclusions about the wing part on information supplied by planemaker Boeing and by Malaysia Airlines, he said.
    He was speaking shortly after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the Boeing 777 wing segment discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was confirmed as coming from missing Flight MH370, the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago.
    Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March last year en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.
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