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The debris does
not match those of a Boeing 777 and the part numbers found on
the debris were not listed on the Malaysia Airlines parts
catalogue manual, the ministry said in a statement following an
investigation.
A large piece of curved metal washed ashore in Nakhon Si
Thammarat province on Saturday, prompting speculation it might
belong to the missing Boeing 777.
The MH370 disappearance is one of the greatest mysteries in
aviation history.
The plane disappeared with 239 people on board during a flight
from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014. A piece of the plane
washed up on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 but no
further trace has been found.
The search, led by Australia and one of the most expensive ever
conducted, is focused on a 120,000-sq-km (46,330-sq-mile) band
of sea floor in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
Earlier this week, Australian authorities searching for the jet
said they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used to
scour a patch of the ocean floor.
(Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi; Editing by Paul Tait and Nick
Macfie)
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