Plane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion and may belong to the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight has been transferred to Toulouse for identification, which would be conducted on Aug. 5, French media reported on Sunday.
In Saint-Denis, capital of La Reunion, Chinese Consul General Guo Wei told Xinhua that the Chinese side is closely following latest developments of the issue.
The consulate has been continuously monitoring information concerning recovery, transport and examination of the debris, and will keep in touch with La Reunion authorities, he added.
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese nationals, are presumed dead.
The debris was found Wednesday off the French overseas island. Experts identified it as a part of a plane wing known as a flaperon. A day later, pieces of a suitcase and bottles were also found in the area.
The flaperon has been transported by truck to Toulouse on Saturday after being airlifted to Paris from Saint-Denis.
The debris, about 2-2.5 meters long, will be checked by experts at the military-run General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) in Toulouse suburbs. The fragments of that suitcase went to a Paris lab for investigation.
French experts won't examine the debris till the arrival of their Malaysian counterparts, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.
02/08/15 Wang Fan/Xinhua/Ecns.cn
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In Saint-Denis, capital of La Reunion, Chinese Consul General Guo Wei told Xinhua that the Chinese side is closely following latest developments of the issue.
The consulate has been continuously monitoring information concerning recovery, transport and examination of the debris, and will keep in touch with La Reunion authorities, he added.
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese nationals, are presumed dead.
The debris was found Wednesday off the French overseas island. Experts identified it as a part of a plane wing known as a flaperon. A day later, pieces of a suitcase and bottles were also found in the area.
The flaperon has been transported by truck to Toulouse on Saturday after being airlifted to Paris from Saint-Denis.
The debris, about 2-2.5 meters long, will be checked by experts at the military-run General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) in Toulouse suburbs. The fragments of that suitcase went to a Paris lab for investigation.
French experts won't examine the debris till the arrival of their Malaysian counterparts, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.
02/08/15 Wang Fan/Xinhua/Ecns.cn
