Australian authorities then said in March that two pieces of debris found in Mozambique- a flat grey fragment with the words "No Step" printed on one side ,found on a sandbank, and a 1m-long piece of metal picked up by a holidaymaker -were "almost certainly from MH370".
In mid-May, the government agency leading the search for MH370, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB),saaid two fragments that washed up on beaches in South Africa and Mauritius in March were also likely to have come from the jet. One part, which came ashore at Mossel Bay in South Africa, was an aircraft engine cowling, identified from a partial Rolls Royce stencil. The other, found on Rodrigues island in Mauritius, was a Decorative laminate From a "work table" in the main cabin.
Australian is leading the hunt for MH370 in the remote Indian Ocean, with more than 105,000 sq km of the designated 120,000 sq km search zone examined so far without success.