Searchers scour beaches in hopes of unlocking MH370 mystery
By ANDREW MELDRUM and SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press
Jul 31, 2015 4:01 AM CDT
This image taken from video, shows a piece of debris from a plane, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Saint-Andre, Reunion. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370,...   (Associated Press)

SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion (AP) — Searchers are scouring the Reunion coastline in hopes of finding more debris that officials hope will unlock the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Philippe Sidam, head of an association that maintains the Bois Rouge beach near where the aircraft wing was found Wednesday, says the ocean currents bring all kinds of debris. He displayed a laundry bottle from Indonesia, 6,700 kilometers (4,100 miles) away, as an example.

A Malaysian team is on its way Friday to Toulouse, France, where the wing fragment will be taken for investigation. It will be analyzed in special defense facilities used for airplane testing and analysis, according to the Defense Ministry.

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