MH370;Flaperon verification in one or two days

PUTRAJAYA, A Malaysian team will be able
to verify in "one or two days "whether the
flaperon  found on Reunion Island in the Indian
Ocean is part of the missing Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370,said  Deputy Transport Minister
Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi.

H said the two metre -long piece of wreckage
found on the island was being flown to Toulouse,
France and was expected to arrive there Friday.
"It is small part and they can easily identify (it)
I was told they discovered the part number
(stamped on various parts of the component
)he told reporters when met at the ministry 's
Aidilfirty open house here today.

He siad the team would collaborate with the
bureau D"Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA)
the French aviation investigative agency
for the verification.

On reports that Australian search authorities
were "increasingly confident that the debris
was from MH370,Abdul Aziz said ,We have
to wait for the clarification by our team in
Toulouse"

Flight MH370 Boeing 777 carrying 227
passengers and 12 crew,disappeared from
radar on March 8 last year   about an hour
after taking off from KL international Airport
on a flight to Beijing,

On Jan 29 ,this year the DCA announced
that the disappearance of the aircraft was
an accident based on International aviation
rules and that all 239 people on board were
deemed to have lost  their lives,

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib  Tun Razak
said yesterday initial reports suggested that
the debris was very likely to be from a Boeing
777 aircraft but there  was a need to verify
whether it was from the MH370.

Asked about the next course of action if
the flaperon belonged to the MH370,Abdul
Aziz said there would be further investigation
in collaboration with BEA,
"I hope we can find a closure "he said

BERNAMA