Malaysia Confirms Debris Found in Tanzania is from MH370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital to Beijing.

French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, which was later confirmed to belong to MH370. (Photo: AP)

Malaysia said on Thursday that a large piece of aircraft debris discovered on the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, in June, was from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370.

A search of more than two years has turned up few traces of the Boeing 777 aircraft that disappeared in March 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board, soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, bound for Beijing.

The debris, an outboard flap, will be examined further to see if it can yield any insight into the circumstances around the missing plane, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said in a statement.

Investigators have previously confirmed a piece of plane debris found on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 as being part of MH370. They are examining several other pieces of debris found in Mozambique, South Africa and Rodrigues Island, a territory of Mauritius.