Malaysia: 'The second metal fragment is not the plane MH370'

A Malaysian official said the newly discovered metal piece on Reunion Island has nothing to do with the missing plane MH370, but a ladder.

The second metal fragment was found not from the MH370

" I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority and people living in Reunion, it is just a domestic ladder," AFP quoted Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Malaysia General Director of Civil Aviation Authority, yesterday. .

The second new fragment was found to be part of the ladder, unrelated to MH370.(Photo: AFP)

A foreign-letter object, probably an airplane door , was discovered yesterday in the southern city of Saint Denis on Reunion Island. However, some officials involved in investigating the plane MH370 said there was no indication that this piece of metal belonged to the aircraft.

Also yesterday, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the first debris, a sub-wing , washed into Reunion Island, on July 29, confirmed to belong to the Boeing 777 model, along with type with the aircraft carrier MH370 of Malaysia Airlines missing last year.

Experts in Toulouse, France, will continue to work on August 5 to determine if this extra wing is part of MH370. The expert team includes representatives from the US, France, China and Boeing.

Malaysian officials also said they would appeal to people near Reunion to try to find more plane fragments.

Christophe Naudin, an aviation security expert, told BFM-TV of France that only two 777 aircraft had been in an accident since 2013, one crashed in the San Francisco runway, the US and one exploded in Ukraine. . So in the aviation community, " we are all convinced that the new wing is found to belong to the MH370," Naudin said.

Malaysia Airlines aircraft carrying the missing MH370 number on March 8, carrying 239 people on board. It lost contact while on a journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.