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Aust expert to examine possible MH370 wing

An Australian aviation expert has been flown to France to join a team examining wreckage that washed up on Reunion Island, which could be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Federal Transport Minister Warren Truss said on Wednesday Malaysian and French authorities were expected to make a statement about the origin of the wing part later this week.

The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said drift modelling by the CSIRO showed material from the current search area could have been carried to Reunion Island and other areas by ocean currents and wind.

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JACC said drift modelling indicated that if there was more floating debris from MH370, it could be any where within the Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, pieces of suspected MH370 debris continue to be collected on the shoreline of France’s Reunion Island.

The same Reunion resident who found a plane door part that turned out be a ladder discovered what may be a piece of plastic moulding belonging to a plane window on Tuesday.

There is equal speculation that the plastic may belong to the side of a sewing machine.

Search crews have not given up scouring the 120,000 square kilometre zone.

Fugro Discovery, one of the ships searching for the plane, visited Fremantle port at the weekend to resupply and is expected to be back in the search area by next Wednesday.

Another, Fugro Equator, continues to conduct search operations in the southern Indian Ocean and is expected to leave the search area on Thursday for a routine resupply at Fremantle port.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing on a routine commercial flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in March, 2014.

The flight made its last contact with air traffic control less than half-an-hour after take-off.

Six Australians were on board the flight, as well as 152 Chinese citizens and 50 Malaysians.

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