Aust expert to examine possible MH370 wing

The team examining wreckage possibly linked to vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is expected to make a statement later this week about the wing piece.

An Australian Transport and Safety Bureau expert has flown to Toulouse in France to join the team examining wreckage that washed up on Reunion island.

Federal Transport Minister Warren Truss said on Wednesday Malaysian and French authorities were expected to make a statement about the origin of the wing part later this week.

The Joint Agency Coordination Centre said drift modelling by the CSIRO showed material from the current search area could have been carried to Reunion island and other areas by ocean currents and wind.

JACC said drift modelling indicated that if there was more floating debris from MH370, it could be any where in hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of the Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, search crews have not given up scouring the 120,000 square kilometre zone.

Fugro Discovery, one of the ships searching for the plane, visited Fremantle port at the weekend to resupply and is expected to be back in the search area by next Wednesday.

Another, Fugro Equator, continues to conduct search operations in the southern Indian Ocean and is expected to leave the search area on Thursday for a routine resupply at Fremantle port.