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Thailand to study debris thought to be from MH370

PTI
Published : Jan 25, 2016, 5:54 am IST
Updated : Jan 25, 2016, 5:54 am IST

Thailand on Sunday said the plane wreckage found on the country’s southern coast will be examined to see if it is from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared mysteriously in 201

Thailand on Sunday said the plane wreckage found on the country’s southern coast will be examined to see if it is from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared mysteriously in 2014 with 239 people, including five Indians on board.

The metal wreckage, covered in barnacles and measuring two metres wide and three metres long, is suspected to be part of a plane, was washed ashore on Saturday on the southeast coast to Bangkok, triggering speculation it could be from the missing plane.

Police official Paijit Pongkaew told Malaysian state-owned Bernama news agency that the suspected wreckage would be brought to the Pak Phanang district police station for the experts from the aviation sector and the country’s Air Force to inspect it.

“We are in the process of contacting the relevant authorities, especially from the aviation sector and also the Air Force, to enable them to better inspect the suspected wreckage of the plane,” he said.

Meanwhile, Malaysia’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai appealed to the media not to speculate on the plane wreckage, as it would put more undue pressure on the families of the missing.

Location: Thailand, Bangkok