Investigators use font to confirm debris found off Mozambique is from MH370

A Technical Examination Report, released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Wednesday, confirmed that the debris came from the lost MH370.

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Investigators have confirmed that the two pieces of wreckage discovered off the coast of Mozambique months ago belong to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - the Boeing-777 airliner that went missing en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur in March 2014.

A Technical Examination Report, released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Wednesday, confirmed that the debris came from the lost MH370.

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Australia's Transport Minister Darren Chester said stenciling of key words and numbers on the two pieces of debris was a perfect match with the font used by Malaysia Airlines, and was not the same one used by the Boeing factory when delivering aircraft.

This link thus proves that both pieces, one from the horizontal stabiliser and the other from the wing, belong to the Boeing-777 which went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard.

Chester added that the search for remaining parts of MH370 would continue. The authorities are now planning to search the remaining 20,000 square km in the search zone.

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