Mauritius debris confirmed as coming from Flight MH370

A third piece of debris has been confirmed as being part of missing airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Sections of a Boeing 777 confirmed as originating from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.

A third piece of debris found scattered around the western rim of the Indian Ocean has been confirmed as being part of missing airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau issued a bulletin yesterday saying what it calls “part No 6”, found on the island state of Mauritius, had been identified as a trailing edge section of the left outboard flap of the Boeing 777. The conclusive determin­ation came from examination of a “unique work order number” found on the part.

MH370 went off course about 40 minutes into a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to ­Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. Primary radar and automatic satellite tracking data shows it went down in the southern Indian Ocean, after zig-zagging back over the Malaysia-­Thailand border and over the Andaman Sea.

“The finding of this debris, which is the third piece to be conclusively linked to MH370, continues to affirm the focus of search efforts in the southern ­Indian Ocean,” Transport Minister Darren Chester said.