The flaperon seen on Reunion Island. Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre has confirmed that the wing belongs to missing flight MH370. – Reuters file pic, August 12, 2015.The Australian Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) has confirmed that a part of the aircraft known as a flaperon found in Reunion Island is from the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
"Subsequent examination has indicated that in all probability, the wreckage, a wing part known as a flaperon, was from MH370," said JACC in a statement today.
On July 29, a piece of the wing was discovered on the Reunion Island coast and was sent to France for further analysis.
On August 6, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak confirmed that part of the flaperon found on Reunion Island was part of the aircraft.
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 last year after its departure from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers on board, among them 154 Chinese nationals. – Bernama, August 12, 2015.
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