Australia ‘increasingly confident debris from MH370’: search chief

A picture made available 30 July 2015 shows officers carrying pieces of debris from an unidentified aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La Reunion island, France, 29 July 2015. - EPA

SYDNEY, July 31, 2015 (AFP) - Australian search authorities Friday said they were "increasingly confident" plane debris that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island is from missing flight MH370, with formal identification possible within 24 hours.

The two-metre (six-foot) long piece of wreckage -- found on the French island of La Reunion -- was expected to arrive in France on Saturday where it will be analysed.