Malaysian reps to S Africa in MH370 hunt

Malaysia has sent representatives to Mozambique and South Africa to organise a more thorough search for plane debris, after the discovery of several pieces presumed to be from a crashed airliner, a minister says.
During the past two months plane parts suspected to be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 have been found in both countries.
"We have sent our team to Mozambique and South Africa to discuss the complete program to search for debris on the sea shores of these two countries," Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters on Thursday at the headquarters of the Malaysia Chinese Association, an ethnic-Chinese political party aligned with the ruling coalition.
The Beijing-bound flight MH370, with 239 people aboard - mostly Chinese - disappeared nearly an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
At present Australian experts are examining two pieces of debris which were found in Mozambique and were said to be "almost certainly" from the plane.
Meanwhile, two other suspected plane parts recovered from South Africa were to be transported to Malaysia for initial analysis.
A wing part confirmed to be from the missing flight was recovered on French Reunion Island last year.
The Australian-led international search team scouring the ocean floor has yet to locate the main body of the missing airliner, which is thought to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

Originally published as Malaysian reps to S Africa in MH370 hunt