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BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Australian authorities says they are "increasingly confident" plane debris that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island is from missing flight Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The country's deputy prime minister said wreckage in that area of the Indian Ocean matched predictions based on water currents.
"The fact that wreckage is on the Reunion Island or in the Madagascar area, is consistent with some of the modelling we've done in relation to current movements and our predictions as to where wreckage from MH370 could make land fall if any of it was moving with the currents," said Warren Truss, Australian Deputy Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Martin Dolan, said they are still working on analysing the information, with formal identification possible within 24 hours.
Aircraft debris found on the French island of Reunion in the southwest Indian Ocean was sent to France for examination. The wreckage piece will arrive Saturday in Toulouse, and will be studied by a laboratory specializing in accident investigations.
The two-metre long wing part has been identified as a flaperon almost certainly belonging to a Boeing 777. A suitcase was also found in the same place.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
