MALAYSIAN Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai has said there is a “high probability” debris found on a beach in Mozambique is from a Boeing 777 — with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 the only missing 777.
Liow said the area where the debris was found matched investigators’ predictions. Malaysian officials will travel to the African country.
The plane, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. Liow said a Malaysian team with representatives from the country's civil aviation department, Malaysia Airlines and investigators will be heading to Mozambique.
The debris is still in Mozambique and Liow said it is unclear when it will be sent to Australia for examination. Authorities in Mozambique are helping to comb the area where it was found for other possible debris.
Meanwhile, the family of the senior pilot on MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, said he must not be made a scapegoat for its disappearance.
His older sister, Sakinab Shah, said: "If you have nothing tangible and nothing by way of evidence, it's tantamount to predicting he is guilty until proven innocent. This sets us back in the Dark Ages."
She said it was "very convenient" to make her brother the scapegoat to absolve the airline from claims or protect the Malaysian government from possible cover-ups and US airline manufacturer Boeing from losing business.
"Please do not judge him based on theories.... don't blame him unless there is evidence. I want to say that he's innocent until proven guilty. That is the mantra of modern civilisation," she said.
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