MALAYSIA-AIRLINES/REUNION AIRPORT Police at La Reunion airport prepare boxes believed to contain plane wreckage

Record ID: 145522

  • Title: MALAYSIA-AIRLINES/REUNION AIRPORT Police at La Reunion airport prepare boxes believed to contain plane wreckage
  • Date: 31st July 2015
  • Summary: SAINTE-MARIE, REUNION ISLAND (JULY 31, 2015) (REUTERS) REUNION ISLAND AIRPORT SIGN FOR FRENCH GENDARMERIE VARIOUS OF POLICE PREPARING WOODEN BOXES BELIEVED TO CONTAIN PLANE WRECKAGE WOODEN BOX BEING LIFTED AND LOADED INTO VAN POLICEMAN GETTING INTO THE VAN VARIOUS OF VAN DRIVING OFF ESCORTED BY POLICE CARS EXTERIOR OF AIR FRANCE CARGO AREA AIR FRANCE CARGO LOGO
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACW8FFQQ1N15YDD0DRTFHX2Z4
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Police packed wooden boxes at the Reunion Island airport on Friday (July 31) which are believed to contain plane debris that washed up on the French island in the Indian Ocean.
    The debris is almost certainly part of a Boeing 777, a Malaysian official and aviation experts said, potentially the biggest breakthrough in the search for missing Flight MH370.
    The plane piece was found on Wednesday washed up on Reunion, a volcanic island of 850,000 people that is a full part of France, located in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar.
    Reunion is roughly 3,700 km (2,300 miles) from the broad expanse of the southern Indian Ocean off Australia where search efforts have focused, but officials and experts said currents could have carried wreckage that way, thousands of kilometres from where the plane is thought to have crashed.
    A source close to the French investigation said the plan was to transfer the wing flap to France's European mainland, along with a fragment of luggage that had also been found in the area.
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