Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester on Friday visited Chinese ship Dong Hai Jiu 101 in Fremantle, which has been involved in the operation in search of the Malaysian Airline MH370 since February this year and will resume the search after being equipped with a key search equipment.
Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester confirmed on Monday that the two pieces of debris found in Mozambique have arrived in Australia and Australia will examine them thoroughly.
Suspected debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 discovered in Mozambique and French overseas Reunion Island recently will be sent to Australia and France for verification, Malaysian officials said Monday.
China called for continued international investigation to find the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared two years ago.
Investigators probing missing flight MH370 collected more metallic debris on an Indian Ocean island on Sunday as Malaysia urged authorities in the region to be on alert for wreckage washing up on their shores.
As experts on the Indian Ocean island Reunion studied plane debris for clues in the search for missing flight MH370, scientist Nicolas Villeneuve was making his own discovery: the island's volcano was about to erupt.
Malaysia to seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing jet was found to try to find more debris.
Malaysia said on Sunday that airplane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as being from a Boeing 777, the same model as Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
The probable MH 370 debris arrived in Toulouse Saturday to be analysed by experts, reported Saturday French local media.
But Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi says it does not mean the debris was from the missing flight MH370, local media reports.
Families of Chinese passengers on board MH370 are concerned the discovery of debris possibly belonging to the missing Malaysian aircraft may disrupt the international search operation.
The debris will be shipped by French authorities to Toulouse, site of the nearest office of the BEA, the French authority responsible for civil aviation accident investigations.