The plane's wings were not deployed at the time of the crash

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The plane’s wing shows that the aircraft’s wing flap was not deployed at the time of impact ruling out a controlled crash, which would have required the flaps to be deployed.

The aircraft vanished in March 2014 as it was flying from Kuala Lumper to Beijing and investigators are still trying to understand what exactly happened.

Experts said the new debris shows flaps, which are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing, were not deployed and so there was not a controlled landing.