French newspaper Le Parisien reports that the Air Transport Gendarmerie, which works on airport security, will launch its own investigation.
French aviation authorities have flagged a new investigation into the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
French newspaper Le Parisien reports that the Air Transport Gendarmerie, which works on airport security, will launch its own investigation.
Investigators want to verify technical data transmitted from the flight including data from Inmarsat, the British global satellite network which tracked the airline.
Immarsat tracked pings from the plane to the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia, where the plane is believed to have crashed.
France will re-examine “all the technical data” provided by Inmarsat in order to “verify its authenticity”, Le Parisien reports.
The French authority said the presence of four French citizens on board allows it to carry out its own inquiry, according to Le Parisien.
The French decision comes after Malaysian investigators released a comprehensive report into the plane's disappearance in March 2014, which found there was no evidence to implicate the two pilots in a deliberate act to bring the plane down.
Instead it raised the possibility of unlawful "intervention by a third party".