![]() ![]() Thousands of aspiring good Samaritans volunteered their time to scour part of the plane’s search zone using detailed satellite images posted online by DigitalGlobe, a Colorado firm that owns one of the world’s most advanced commercial satellite networks. And people are doing more than just watching, or reading, the news. Thomas said, however, if confirmed the find would dispel the conspiracy theories that suggest investigators were searching in the wrong place, or that somehow the plane may have landed safely undetected.Folks are using the hashtag #MH370 to connect. “It was a matter of waiting for something to wash up,” he said. Thomas said, if anything, the location of the potential debris confirms modeling from the University of Western Australia that showed material from the plane could wash up around Reunion between 12 to 24 months after the plane’s disappearance.ĭespite the modeling, no one had been searching in that area, he said, because of the vast nature of the Indian Ocean and the multitude of factors that meant finding anything would be matter of luck and time. Will debris found near Reunion led to a rethinking of past theories? Charring, for example, could indicate an explosion, he said.ĩ aviation mysteries highlight long history of disappearances However, Tom Ballantyne of Orient Aviation magazine said the condition of the wing could indicate if the plane met a catastrophic end. For that, the flight data recorders – or so-called black boxes – are crucial. ![]() “It really is not going to tell us too much about the final moments of the aircraft,” said Geoffrey Thomas from. However, experts are divided as to whether one or more pieces of floating debris will give many clues about the fate of Flight MH370. The current search is focused deep on the seafloor off Western Australia, along an arc considered by investigators to be the most likely area the plane went down if it turned back toward Malaysia, as indicated by data, and stayed in the air before running out of fuel. “It’s possible that it could have drifted that far – certainly it is possible, especially if air was maintained in that particular piece,” said former pilot Les Abend.Īustralian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said if the piece is from MH370, it would indicate authorities are searching in “roughly the right place.” The discovery of the potential debris off Reunion Island in the west Indian Ocean is consistent with the route of currents in the region and the time it would take for a piece of metal to be washed thousand of kilometers across a vast ocean, experts said. If it is from MH370, will the main search area move? Malaysian investigators should be in Reunion by Friday, he said, and another Malaysian team is going to Toulouse to work with BEA experts. The debris will be flown to Toulouse, France, and handed to the French aviation safety bureau BEA, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Investigators from the United States still want to see the debris, believed to be a 777 flaperon, up close to make a final determination, the source said.įrance and Malaysia will lead the investigation. Schiavo points out that there have been only five accidents involving Boeing 777s, and the disappearance of MH370 is the only one where debris hasn’t been recovered.īoeing investigators are confident the debris found on Reunion Island comes from a 777 aircraft because of photos that have been analyzed and a number that corresponds to a 777 component, according to a source close to the investigation. And if it belongs to a 777, it is MH370,” said Mary Schiavo, CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general of the U.S. “If the part numbers that are stamped on the pieces of the plane still survive, it literally could be a phone call to Boeing or the parts indices to see if it belongs to a 777. Planes are stamped with serial numbers to allow parts to be identified and matched to a specific model and aircraft. On the surface, Wednesday’s discovery is what investigators have been waiting for – the first physical piece of evidence since the flight vanished en route to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard.Īustralia: Debris found is ‘major lead’ in MH370 search If confirmed to be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, could a small portion of plane wing discovered on an Indian Ocean island be the clue investigators need to unlock one of aviation’s biggest mysteries? ![]()
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