Latest MH370 lead ruled out
Debris found on a beach in Western Australia is not connected to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, authorities say.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Martin Dolan told ABC radio he was satisfied it was not from the plane, which is thought to have disappeared in the southern Indian Ocean.
The debris – one piece was 1.8m long and fibreglass coated – washed up on a beach on the southwest coast of Western Australia.
"We’ve carefully examined detailed photographs that were taken for us by the police and we’re satisfied that it’s not a lead in the search for MH370," Dolan said.
"From our point of view, we’re ruling it out. We’ll get some further details just to be sure but at this stage we’re not seeing anything in this that would lead us to believe that it comes from a Boeing aircraft."
Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said insights from Jean Paul Troadec, a key expert in the two-year search for wreckage from the 2009 Air France crash, would be considered in determining the approach to the next phase of the search for MH370.
"When we have to regroup and restrategise, it’s a matter of looking at all the data, whether it is satellite, whether it is radar, and that is very important as we chart our next course," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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