More MH370 wreckage found?

By Wed Mar 2, 2016

A piece of wreckage apparently from a Boeing 777 - like missing MH370 - has been found washed up on a sandbar over the weekend off the coast of Mozambique, a U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday.

The newly discovered debris is on its way to Australia for further examination. 

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The object has the words "NO STEP" on it and could be from the plane's horizontal stabilizer — the wing-like parts attached to the tail, sources say. It was discovered by an American who has been blogging about the search for MH370.

NBC says that photographic analysis of the object suggests it could have come from the doomed jet, which vanished almost exactly 2 years ago.

According to NBC it was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel — the body of water between Mozambique in eastern Africa and Madagascar.

Investigators in Malaysia, Australia and the U.S. have seen photographs of the latest object and sources say there is a good chance it comes from a Boeing 777.

Malaysia Airlines called the identification "speculative."

"It is too speculative at this point for MAS to comment," the airline said.

The mystery of what happened to the plane remains unsolved. The search has turned up only one piece of confirmed debris last July but also some false leads.

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

We will continue to update this story with information and images as it is released. 

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