Recovered plane debris arrives in Paris

Risingbd Desk: Plane debris which washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and is thought to belong to the missing flight MH370 has arrived in French from the French island where it was found on Wednesday.

The object, believed to be part of a wing, was flown to Paris on Saturday.

From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in Toulouse for analysis.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.

There were 239 passengers and crew on board.

The debris was packed into a crate for the flight to Paris

Aviation experts say the wing surface - known as a flaperon - may have stayed afloat due to air pockets in its structure and is almost certainly part of a Boeing 777.

But relatives and officials must await the result of tests to confirm whether it belongs to MH370.

Experts will attempt to verify the serial number of the wing-flap before conducting further tests to establish why it separated from the rest of the plane.

Agencies

risingbd/DHAKA/Aug 1, 2015/Augustin Sujan