Mozambique

Mozambique and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was a scheduled international flight which left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 00:42 am (MYT) and was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am (MYT).

For reasons that are still not known, the aircraft made a turn-back west across the Malay Peninsula; changed direction again and flew north west towards the Andaman Sea; and then turned south.

Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean about 2000 km from Perth , Western Australia.

An international search for the Boeing 777 in the southern Indian Ocean did not locate any debris from MH370 and underwater searches have failed to locate any wreckage of the Boeing 777-200ER.

However, currents in the Indian Ocean carried debris from flight MH370 thousands of kilometers counter-clockwise around the Indian Ocean in an oceanic system known as the Indian Ocean Gyre. Debris which has been confirmed to be from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been recovered in Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, La Réunion Island, South Africa and Tanzania.

Further detail is provided below:-

Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 recovered in Mozambique

Ref.	Date Found	Debris	Location	Remarks
Item 2	27 December 2015	Right Wing No. 7 Flap Support Fairing	Daghatane Beach, Mozambique	Examination showed that part is almost certain from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12B
Item 3	27 February 2016	Right Horizontal Stabiliser Panel	Valankulo, Paluma Sandbank, Mozambique	Examination showed that part is almost certain from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12B
Item 6	24 April 2016	Right Hand Engine Fan Cowling	South of Chidenguele, Mozambique	Examination showed that part is almost certain from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12D
Item 7	30 April 2016	Wing to Body Fairing	Anvil Bay, Chemucane, Mozambique	Examination showed that part is likely from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12E
Item 9	22 May 2016	Left Wing Trailing Edge Panel	Macenta Peninsular, Mozambique	Examination showed that part is highly likely from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12G
Item 22	26 August 2016	Right Vertical Stabilizer Panel	Linga Linga beach Mozambique	Examination showed that part is almost certain from MH370 Refer to Appendix 1.12R

Adapted from Table 1.12A - Items of Debris
Source: Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information

 

Indian Ocean Gyre
Source: Wikimedia Commons WMC-IMG-082 ‎

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Boeing 777-200 Extended Range