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Suspected MH370 wreckage arrives in Paris before being transferred to Toulouse for analysis

Xinhua, August 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

The probable MH370 debris, to be transferred and analysed in Toulouse, arrived in Paris Saturday morning through an Air France flight, confirmed the Paris airport.

Air France flight 671 left Saint-Denis Friday night at 21:15 local time with the probable wreckage of the MH370 flight, and it landed Saturday morning at Paris Orly airport.

The plane wreckage found on the Reunion Island will be transferred to Toulouse where it will be analyzed by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA), according to local media reports.

The debris should be quickly identified because each piece is numbered in an airplane, according to reports.

The plane wreckage was found on the island on Wednesday, announced the Island prefecture on Thursday, saying it's early to draw conclusion on the origin of the debris.

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

A "closed" suitcase "in very bad condition" was found in the same place where a plane debris washed up on French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, local media reported Thursday.

The MH370 flight, 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 Chinese.

So far, the plane has not been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, in what has become one of the biggest mysteries in the aviation history. Endit