DHAKA: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday said experts examining the debris in France had “conclusively confirmed” it was from the aircraft MH370.

Najib held a news conference in Kuala Lumpur to announce that investigators had “conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370”.

This would ‘at least bring certainty to the families”, he added.
 
However, investigators have stopped short of confirming the link, saying only that it is highly likely, reports BBC.

Australian PM Tony Abbott has said the “baffling mystery” of Flight MH370 is closer to being solved, after Malaysia said a fragment found in Reunion was part of the missing plane.

He also said they remain confident they were searching for the plane in the right area.

The Malaysia Airlines plane was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 of 2014 when it vanished from radar with 239 people on board.

The debris found on the remote French Indian Ocean island a week ago - a wing part known as a flaperon - was the first possible trace, and was taken to Toulouse for testing.

BDST: 1042 HRS, AUG 06, 2015
SR