Malaysia PM confirms wreckage belongs to MH370

Debris found on an Indian Ocean island last week is from MH370, Malaysia’s prime minister has said, confirming for the first time that the plane which mysteriously disappeared 17 months ago had crashed.
Najib Razak’s announcement in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday ended an agonising wait for families of the 239 passengers and crew of the Malaysia Airlines flight who had demanded concrete proof of what happened to their missing loves ones.

It was flown to the French city of Toulouse where it was examined on Wednesday by French and Malaysian technical experts, and representatives from Boeing to determine any link to MH370.
“Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370,” Razak said.

“We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
A French prosecutor made a more cautious statement over the issue.
“There exists a very high probability that the flaperon indeed belongs to flight MH370,” said deputy Paris prosecutor Serge Mackowiak said in Paris on Wednesday.
He was unable to say when more detailed results could be available.

Next-of-kin, investigators, and the aviation industry are still left with the vexing question of what caused the Boeing 777 aircraft to inexplicably divert on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman, reporting from Kuala Lumpur, said that the families have blamed the government and the airline of not sharing the information they have, but this was rejected by both many times.
the families has blamed the government and the airline of not sharing the information they got, but this was rejected by both many times.

The flight apparently veered out over the Indian Ocean, flying for hours after its communications and tracking systems were shut off, in what remains one of the biggest mysteries in the history of flight.
Najib gave no indication that the analysis of the debris yielded any clues into the cause of the disappearance.
“I would like to assure all those affected by this tragedy that the government of Malaysia is committed to do everything within our means to find out the truth of what happened,” he said.

“MH370’s disappearance marked us as a nation. We mourn with you, as a nation.”
Many relatives accuse Malaysia’s government and Malaysia Airlines of a bungled response to the disaster, possible cover-up and insensitive treatment of families, charges that are vehemently denied.