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Too early to draw conclusions on plane debris: La Reunion prefecture

Xinhua, July 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

The plane wreckage found on French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion has not been identified, announced the Island prefecture on Thursday, adding that it was early to draw conclusions.

"An aircraft debris was found yesterday morning on the coast near the town of Saint-Andre in Reunion. At this stage, the origin of the debris is not identified. No hypothesis can be excluded, including being from of a Boeing 777," the prefecture said in a statement.

France's BEA air crash investigation agency was studying the wreckage in coordination with Malaysian and Australian experts, it added.

An aviation expert speaking to IPR agency, said the circulated pictures of the debris which seemed to be part of the plane wing, had "incredible similarities between a B777 flaperon (of the missing Boeing)."

The flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200, was reported missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014., with a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them were Chinese.

So far, the place has been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, in what has become one of the biggest mysteries in the aviation history. Endit