Debris could be linked to doomed Malaysia flight

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Malaysia said it will send a team of investigators Monday to inspect debris found on the southern coast of Thailand for a possible link to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished almost two years ago.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Sunday that Thai authorities had invited his investigators after a large piece of white, curved metal was found by a fisherman in Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat province.

“I urge everyone not to speculate on the wreckage found in Thailand,” he said in a tweet Sunday. “Let’s wait for the experts to verify details.”

Japanese rocket maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Monday that the metal is “highly likely” to be part of a Japanese H-IIA or H-IIB rocket that was launched from southern Japan, based on an initial examination of photos and videos of the object, the Associated Press reported.

Flight MH370 disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 8, 2014, bound for Beijing with 239 people aboard. Months of aerial and sea searches over thousands of square miles of the southern Indian Ocean turned up no trace of the plane… see more

source: usatoday

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