Paris Deputy Prosecutor to hold press conference on probable MH370 wreckage

Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak will hold in Paris a press conference following the ongoing identification of probable MH370 wreckage in Balma, suburbs of Toulouse, said Wednesday a statement of the office of the Paris prosecutor.

Without giving further information on the process of the identification, the press conference is scheduled for 20:00 local time (1800 GMT).

The investigators and experts participating in the identification of the probable missing MH370 wreckage arrived Wednesday afternoon in a military laboratory in Toulouse, according to Xinhua journalists on site.

Among the investigators and experts who made no comments at their arrival, Xinhua journalists recognized Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, and experts from the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA).

Australia also has sent an expert to France to help examine the recently found aircraft wreckage. As the manufacturer of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, Boeing also sent a team to Toulouse to assist in the identification process.

The investigators are studying the piece of plane wreckage which was found last Wednesday on Reunion Island, in order to determine if it belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 which has disappeared for more than 16 months.

The debris, found on Reunion Island on Wednesday last week is about 2 to 2.5 meters long, and will be checked by experts at the military-run General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) in Toulouse suburbs.

The flight, a Boeing 777-200, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese nationals. Enditem