THE aviation regulator of the Philippines said on Sunday it could not yet determine if the debris that washed ashore at a resort in Anuron Beach, Mercedes, Eastern Samar on August 6 was part of a missing aircraft.

According to Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) spokesman Eric Apolonio, only aviation experts were authorized to authenticate if the metal pieces came from a plane wreckage.

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