The Latest: Malaysia: High probability new debris from 777

The Latest: Malaysia: High probability new debris from 777, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai says based on pictures of the bits begin on Mozambique, there is a "high probability" that the allotment is from a Boeing 777. Flight 370 is the alone missing 777.

Lai said on Thursday that the breadth breadth it was begin matches investigators' predictions of breadth bits from the even would end up.

Liow says a Malaysian aggregation with assembly from the country's civilian aerodynamics department, Malaysia Airlines and board will be branch to Mozambique. The bits is still in Mozambique and Liow says it is cryptic if it will be beatific to Australia for examination.

Liow says authorities in Mozambique are allowance to adjust the breadth breadth it was begin for added accessible debris.

An oceanographer says there may be a acumen why the bits begin in Mozambique appears to be chargeless of sea activity — clashing the barnacle-encrusted addition allotment begin on Reunion Island endure year.

Charitha Pattiaratchi at the University of Western Australia said if the allotment was apparent on a sandbank as reported, the motion of the after-effects adjoin the annoying bank may accept baldheaded off any sea life. If it had been begin at sea, he says he would apprehend barnacles, "But if it's been on a beach, it's basically been sandblasted."

Also, the allotment appears to be collapsed and barnacles charge something to grip. He acclaimed the flaperon had barnacles alone on the corners and the crevices.

Pattiaratchi has acclimated computer clay to adumbrate a Flight 370 bits path, and in September he met American Blaine Gibson, who's been analytic the region's beaches for the bits and capital the oceanographer's assessment on breadth to look.

Pattiaratchi's models adumbrated Madagascar or Reunion Island, and possibly in the Mozambique channel. That's allegedly breadth Gibson went, Pattiaratchi said.
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