Missing MH370: Possible Boeing 777 Party are against Mozambique, sources say

An object that could be the remains of a Boeing 777 has been found outside of Mozambique and is being examined by investigators looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, sources told NBC News.

Early photographic analysis suggests that the object might have been doomed jet, which disappeared almost exactly 2 years ago.

It was found in a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel - the body of water between Mozambique in East Africa and Madagascar - and in the same corner of the southern Indian Ocean where the only piece confirmed debris a flaperon, was found last July.

Researchers in Malaysia, Australia and the US have seen pictures of the last object and sources say there is a good chance that comes from a Boeing 777.

The object has the words "NO STEP" on it and could be horizontal stabilizer of the aircraft - the wing-shaped parts attached to the tail, sources say. It was discovered by an American who has been using a blog about finding MH370.


Australia Joint Agency Coordination Center said it was aware of the discovery and preparation of a thorough examination. Malaysia Airlines said it was "too speculative at this time" to comment

Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai Malaysia tweeted that there was a "high possibility remains found in Mozambique belongs to a" Boeing 777, but said it was "not yet been confirmed and verified."

Boeing engineers are looking at the photos, according to sources, but the company has declined to comment.


The development comes days before the second anniversary of the disappearance of the plane en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.

o trace has been found of flight MH370 except for the only flaperon barnacle-encrusted washing on the eastern shore of Reunion, east of Madagascar, in July. French aviation experts verified as part of aircraft 9M-MRO after more than a month of forensic analysis in a laboratory near Toulouse.

There have been false hopes in the course of the investigation: In January, the aviation authorities ruled that two objects recovered from the east coast of Malaysia were not the plane desaparecido.disappearance of the plane en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014, with 239 people on board.

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