A South African teen may have discovered a piece of the missing MH370 plane while strolling at a beach in Mozambique.
Liam Lotter said he found the piece during a family vacation in the east African nation in December.
“We stumbled across what seemed like a curved sort of gray object,” the 18-year-old revealed. “We didn’t know what it was at first.”
Investigators will examine it to establish whether it’s from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said Dan O’Malley of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
The jetliner vanished on March 8, 2014, after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, en route to Beijing, with 229 people aboard.
It disappeared in airspace over the Gulf of Thailand, and it has not been seen since.
Australia is leading the underwater search effort in the southern Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 aircraft.
It will be transported to the Australian agency’s laboratory in Canberra for analysis by investigators from Malaysia, Australia and South Africa, according to O’Malley. Boeing engineers will also join the investigators.
Lebo Madiba, a South Africa Civil Aviation Authority consultant, said she’s not sure when the piece will be picked up from the teenager.
But once authorities have it in their possession, she said, it will be sent to Australia for examination.