MH370: Australia confident plane will be found

French gendarmes and police carry a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, in this picture taken July 29, 2015. The Malaysian Prime Minister said the Boeing 777 barnacle-covered debris, a 2-2.5 metre (6.5-8 feet) wing surface known as a flaperon and discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was confirmed as coming from missing flight MH370 the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago. Picture taken July 29, 2015. - REUTERS

SYDNEY: Australian authorities were confident the search for MH370 was being carried out in the right area and the plane would be found after Malaysia confirmed debris on an Indian Ocean island was from the missing flight. 

“(The La Reunion find) is consistent with all the work we’ve done so we’re confident that we’re looking in the right area and we’ll find the aircraft there,” Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, told ABC radio.