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Australian authorities have confirmed the retrieval of another piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft while a Senate probe in the Philippines has heard gruesome details of dozens of murders allegedly ordered by the country’s leader
Wing flap found in Tanzania confirmed to be part of MH370
A wing flap that washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said Thursday. The flap was found in June by residents on Pemba Island, off the coast of Tanzania. Officials had previously said it was highly likely to have come from the missing Boeing 777. An analysis by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane, subsequently confirmed the part was from the aircraft. Several pieces of wreckage suspected to have come from the plane have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since it vanished with 239 people - mostly Chinese - on board during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
What next?
The wing flap is the fifth piece of debris that the Australian authority has determined to be almost certainly, or definitely from Flight 370. Another wing piece found a year ago on La Reunion Island, near Madagascar, was positively identified by French officials. Meanwhile, the US$160 million international search for the wreckage has been focused thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean.