The deputy prime minister said on Wednesday that investigators could be in a position by the end of the week to announce whether the piece of wing belongs to MH370, which is thought to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
Truss, who is also Australia's transport and infrastructure minister, said that French aviation officials have requested Australia's presence as they try to determine the exact origin of debris found on Reunion Island last week.
According to Truss, a representative from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has been "invited" to "take part in the examination of the Boeing 777 flaperon found on La Reunion."
"An investigator from the ATSB will join the French- and Malaysian-led international investigation team today to examine aircraft wreckage found on La Reunion," Truss said in a statement.
"Malaysian authorities, who are responsible for investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, have determined that the aircraft component retrieved from La Reunion is a flaperon from a Boeing 777 aircraft.
"Work is being undertaken by the Malaysian and French authorities to establish whether the flaperon originated from MH370.
"Malaysian and French officials may be in a position to make a formal statement about the origin of the flaperon later this week. "
Truss said crucial ocean modeling devised by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization ( CSIRO) had now paved the way for further searches of the missing aircraft, and that a "defined" search area would be created in the southern Indian Ocean.
- He said ocean currents and wind had likely dispersed the flaperon to Reunion.
"Australia's CSIRO drift modeling, commissioned by the ATSB, confirms that material from the current search area could have been carried to La Reunion, as well as other locations, as part of a progressive dispersal of floating debris through the action of ocean currents and wind," he said.
"For this reason, thorough and methodical search efforts will continue to be focused on the defined underwater search area, covering 120,000 square kilometers, in the southern Indian Ocean."
MH370 was a scheduled passenger flight bound for Beijing, China, from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. It disappeared from radars not long after take-off.
There were 239 people on board, many of whom were Chinese.
Xinhua - china.org.cn
5/8/15
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MH370 : début des expertises du débris d’aile ce mercredi...
ReplyDeleteExperts et enquêteurs entament ce mercredi à Toulouse l’analyse du fragment d’aile de Boeing retrouvé à La Réunion. Ils tenteront de déterminer sa possible appartenance au vol MH370, disparu au-dessus de l’océan Indien en mars 2014.
Plus d’un an après la mystérieuse disparition du vol MH370 de la Malaysia Airlines, en mars 2014, experts et enquêteurs doivent commencer ce mercredi après-midi à Toulouse les analyses du fragment d’aile de Boeing retrouvé à La Réunion la semaine dernière.
Ces expertises se feront en présence de représentants français (la justice française s’est saisie de l’affaire car quatre des 239 disparus sont français), malaisiens (l’avion recherché appartenant à la compagnie nationale Malaysia Airlines), chinois (pays qui a comptait le plus grand nombre de ses ressortissants parmi les victimes), américains et de l’avionneur Boeing (constructeur de l’avion). Un représentant australien du Bureau de la sécurité des Transports (ASTB) a également été dépêché en France et devrait être présent.
De possibles résultats en fin de semaine
Selon le vice-Premier ministre australien Warren Truss, les enquêteurs devraient être capables de dire en fin de semaine si la pièce retrouvée provient ou non du MH370. Pour l’heure en effet, la pièce découverte, un volet d’aile d’avion appelé flaperon , d’environ 2 m2, a « été officiellement identifié comme un morceau d’un Boeing 777 ». Mais les «autorités malaisiennes et françaises pourraient être en mesure de faire une déclaration officielle sur la provenance de ce flaperon dans la semaine », a affirmé le vice-Premier ministre..................http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/tourisme-transport/021246155819-mh370-debut-des-expertises-ce-mercredi-1142327.php?IqWETT0WAIR2wMss.99#xtor=RSS37
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