Debris found earlier this month off the southeast African
coast which some believe could be from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight has
arrived in Australia for testing, officials said on Monday, two years after the
plane disappeared.

A white, metre-long chunk of metal was found off the coast
of Mozambique this month by a United States adventurer who has been carrying
out an independent search for flight MH370.

“These are items of interest but, because of the
rigorous analysis to be performed, it is not possible to speculate on how long
it might take to reach any conclusions,” Australian Infrastructure
Minister Darren Chester said in a statement.

Two pieces of debris will be examined by investigators
from Australia and Malaysia, as well as specialists from Boeing, Geoscience
Australia and the Australian National University in Canberra, Chester said.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai has said there
is a “high possibility” the metal chunk belongs to a 777 jet, the same
type of aircraft as MH370.

The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239
passengers and crew on board shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound
for Beijing.

It is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean and an
initial search of a 60,000 square kilometres area of sea floor has been
extended to another 60,000.

A piece of the plane’s wing washed up on the French Indian
Ocean island of Reunion, on the other side of Madagascar, in July 2015. So far
only that piece, known as a flaperon, has been confirmed to belong to the
missing plane.

– Reuters