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[00:00.28]A piece of metal from missing Malaysia Airways Flight 370
[00:05.12]may have been found in Mozambique.
[00:08.92]The metal is white and about one meter long.
[00:13.80]It is being sent to Australia for testing.
[00:17.72]The Australian agency supervising the search for the plane
[00:22.00]will examine the metal to determine where it came from.
[00:27.36]An American beachcomber found the piece of metal
[00:31.32]and brought it to authorities in Mozambique.
[00:35.00]The piece of metal, or debris,
[00:37.68]may be from an airplane part called a horizontal stabilizer.
[00:44.24]It is printed with the words "no step"
[00:47.40]and has a code on it that makes experts think it is from a Boeing 777.
[00:54.68]That is the same kind of plane that disappeared in 2014
[00:59.36]with 239 people on board.
[01:02.88]Computer models predicted that debris could wash-up in Mozambique.
[01:08.48]If the metal turns out to be from Flight 370,
[01:12.84]it will be the second confirmed piece of debris from the plane.
[01:18.08]A piece of the wing, called a flaperon,
[01:21.68]was found on a French island in the Indian Ocean last summer.
[01:26.60]The man who found the debris is from the state of Washington.
[01:31.32]He travels around looking for pieces of the plane.
[01:35.32]He said he traveled to a number of countries
[01:38.40]looking for parts of Flight 370.
[01:43.12]The transport minister in Malaysia
[01:45.48]did not want to get too excited about the discovery.
[01:50.28]He asked people to wait for more information.
[01:55.80]He says there will be a search
[01:58.24]if the piece of metal turns out to be from the Malaysian plane.
[02:04.20]On March 8, the Malaysian authorities will release more information
[02:09.04]about the new debris and the search.
[02:12.20]March 8 is the two-year anniversary of the plane's disappearance.
[02:17.60]The plane was going to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur
[02:21.64]before it went off course over the Indian Ocean.
[02:25.12]I'm Anna Mateo.