莫桑比克海岸發現疑似MH370碎片

A piece of aircraft debris that washed up on a sandbank in Mozambique has a “high possibility” of being from a Boeing 777, the same type of jet as the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, according to Malaysia’s transport minister.

據馬來西亞交通部長廖中萊(Liow Tiong Lai)表示，在莫桑比克的一片沙灘上發現了一塊飛機碎片，“非常可能”來自波音777——與馬來西亞失蹤客機MH370爲同種機型。

Liow Tiong Lai said the debris would be taken to Australia for further examination and it was not yet possible to determine if it was from the Malaysia Airlines aircraft that went missing on a flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing almost two years ago.

廖中萊表示，這塊碎片會被帶到澳大利亞做進一步檢查，目前尚無法確定這塊碎片是否來自近兩年前在吉隆坡到北京的航線上消失的馬航MH370客機。

The disappearance on March 8 2014 of the aircraft with 239 people on board has prompted the largest and most expensive search effort in aviation history.

這架客機於2014年3月8日失蹤，機上載有239人。它的失蹤推動了航空史上規模最大、金額最高的搜尋活動。

In August a piece of a Boeing 777 wing known as a flaperon washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and was subsequently confirmed by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak as belonging to MH370. But an undersea search of a remote part of the ocean off Western Australia has failed to find the final resting place of the aircraft and is due to wind up within months.

去年8月一塊波音777機翼碎片（確定爲襟副翼）衝上了印度洋法屬留尼汪島(La Réunion)，隨後獲馬來西亞總理納吉布•拉扎克(Najib Razak)確認屬於MH370。但在對遠離西澳大利亞海岸的一片偏遠海域進行海底搜索後，未能發現MH370的最後沉落處，此次搜索活動將在數月內結束。

Only four other 777s have been written off due to accidents since the aircraft type entered service in 1994. None of those was lost over the sea and all are accounted for.

波音777機型自1994年投入使用以來，只有5架飛機整機失事。其他4架都不是在海上失蹤的，而且都已確定下落。

“The location reported to be found in Mozambique is consistent with the drift modelling that was undertaken,” said a spokesman for the Australia’s Air Transport Safety Board, which is co-ordinating the undersea search. “But until the debris has been examined we cannot comment on its nature.”

澳大利亞交通安全局(ATSB)目前負責海底搜索的統籌工作，其發言人表示：“報道中莫桑比克的發現位置與此前的漂移建模保持一致。但我們要對這塊碎片進行檢查後才能對其性質發表評論。”