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The part was found by Blaine Gibson on a sandbank in the off the coast of in southern Mozambique, around 2,000 km 1,200 mi southwest of where the flaperon had been found the previous July.

Three months later, reported that a British woman sailing in the Indian Ocean claimed to have seen an aircraft afire.

On 9 June 2016, a Russian businessman claimed that the shooting down of the airliner put an end to the possibility of a creation of a pro-Russian confederation and prolonged the war in Donbas.

It notified most of the families in person or via telephone, and some received an in English and Chinese informing them that it was likely that the aircraft had crashed with no survivors.