Malaysian Flight MH370 Crash Site Found?

After almost a year and a half of continuous search, families of those involved in this unfortunate incident than finally begin have some sort of real closure. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 people aboard, disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, early on March 8, 2014, whilst bound for Beijing.

Despite earnest search, it had never been found baffling many minds about how an entire plane could just disappear into thin air. But last week, debris found near a French Island seemed consistent with the missing aircraft. 

The debris, found in the Western Indian Ocean island of Reunion, seemed to point towards a Boeing 777 airplane. Malaysian experts were flown in to assess whether it could be off flight MH370. And the Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak has confirmed part of the aircraft wing found on Reunion Island is from the missing MH370 plane.

Mr Najib said international experts examining the debris in France had “conclusively confirmed” it was from the aircraft, reports the BBC. 

“It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris is indeed MH370,

” Mr Najib told reporters. “We now have physical evidence that flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” he added.

French prosecutor Serge Mackowiak later confirmed the wing fragment, known as a flaperon, was from a Boeing 777 – the same make and model as the missing Malaysian airliner.

He said initial tests showed there were “very strong indications” that it was from flight MH370. But he said confirmation would only come after further tests on the fragment, which would begin on Thursday.