Debris found in Reunion island could match missing MH370

Debris found on Wednesday in the western Indian Ocean island of Reunion could match the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 missing Boeing 777 that disappeared in 2014, sources close to the investigation said.

Aviation experts commented that the debris looked like a unique element to the Boeing 777's flaperon.

The plane vanished without a trace on 8 March 2014 when it was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, which sparked the biggest land and sea search in history.

Malaysian Minister of Transportation Liow Tiong Lai said from New York that the country's government had dispatched a team to the island to investigate the debris.

"We need to verify. We have wreckage found that needs to be further verified before we can further confirm if it belongs to MH370. So we have dispatched a team to investigate on these issues and we hope that we can identify it as soon as possible," Tiong Lai said.

Malaysia Airlines said it was working with authorities to determine where the part came from.

"At the moment, it would be too premature for the airline to speculate on the origin of the flaperon," the carrier said.

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