KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 ― The debris found on the shores of Besut, Terengganu, did not come from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 as it did not match a Boeing 777 jet, the Transport Ministry said today.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a team comprising the ministry, the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) and Malaysia Airlines had examined the metal object believed to be plane wreckage that washed up Wednesday on the Terengganu coast.
“The assessment found that the debris does not match those of a Boeing 777, thus confirming that the debris is not from MH370,” Liow said in a statement.
International newswire Reuters reported yesterday that a white metal object measuring two metres long was spotted floating in the waters near Besut, which was found along the same coastline facing the South China Sea as the Nakhon Si Thammarat province in Thailand, where suspected plane debris was found last Saturday.
Liow had however confirmed that the piece of metal found on the beach in southern Thailand did not match any part of a Boeing jumbo jet.
Flight MH370 disappeared almost two years ago in 2014 with 239 people on board enroute to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
