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Reunion Island Wreckage Most Likely From MH370 Plane, Australian Gov't Says

© East News / Zhao YingquanMembers of the Chinese emergency response team on "South China Sea Rescue 101" salvage floating object at the possible crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Members of the Chinese emergency response team on South China Sea Rescue 101 salvage floating object at the possible crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 - Sputnik International
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Australian authorities believe there is "high probability" that the debris found on La Reunion Island comes from the disappeared Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane, a spokesman for Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said as quoted by ABC News.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A French prosecutor also said as quoted by ABC that there was a "very high probability" that the wreckage was from the Boeing 777 plane, but more confirmation was still required.

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Malaysian PM Confirms Debris Found on Reunion Island Belongs to MH370

Earlier, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that a team of experts had concluded that the debris that washed ashore on Reunion was from MH370. Razak said on Wednesday that the wreckage is "physical evidence" proving that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean last year.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, less than an hour after takeoff. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.

Relatives of passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that went missing on March 8, 2014, wearing T-shirts carrying a message for the missing flight as they leave Yonghegong Lama Temple after a gathering of family members of the missing passengers, in Beijing Sunday, March 8, 2015. - Sputnik International
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MH370 Investigation Team Moves to Paris as More Debris Appears

Based on an analysis of aircraft performance data, experts suspected that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

The Australian government’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) has been leading the MH370 search operation.

Last week, a flaperon, the movable part of a plane’s wing that is lowered or raised to control the angle of the aircraft, was found on the French La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

The wing fragment was sent to Toulouse, France to be investigated further by French and Malaysian experts.

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