The wing was found by fishermen in Pemba last month.

By Gadiosa Lamtey @gadiosa2 glamtey@tz.nationmedia.com

Dar es Salaam. A piece of an aircraft wing suspected to be that of a missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370, was yesterday handed over to the company officials here.

The fragment, which was presented to Australian and Malaysian officials by Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority was found by fishermen in Pemba last month.

The aircraft with 239 people onboard was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 when air traffic control staff lost contact with it.

Despite an extensive search of the southern Indian Ocean, no trace of the aircraft was found.

A senior air accident investigator from the Malaysia Ministry of Transport, Mr Aslam Basha Khan, said it would take time to determine if the piece is from the missing plane as they had so far collected about 100 pieces of aircraft found in many places and they were analysing them all.

He said other aircraft pieces were found in Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa and Mauritius.