Something Spotted On Found Plane Debris Points Directly To MH370

“They have informed me”, Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on Friday.

Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, of the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, told APTN that finding a piece the debris on Reunion was “entirely consistent with current patterns in the Southern Indian Ocean to be originated from the area that they’re doing the current search for the wreckage“.

Whether the plane wreckage found on a tiny Indian Ocean island is part of missing flight MH370 could be determined in the next 24 hours.

Malaysia Airlines was operating a Boeing 777 on the ill-fated flight, which vanished without a trace in March previous year. The discovery of the debris, which experts said could be a flaperon from a Boeing 777 aircraft, did not mean other parts would start washing up on La Reunion or at nearby locations, Dolan added.

The fragment may be the first clue to what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared last year with 293 people aboard.

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Reunion island – where wreckage from a Boeing 777 is believed to have been found – is a 40-mile long island around 4,000 miles from where doomed flight MH370 was last seen.

Greg Feith, an aviation safety consultant and former crash investigator at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said his sources at Boeing had told him the piece was from a 777.

“It establishes really beyond any doubt that the aircraft is resting in the Indian Ocean and not secretly parked in some hidden place on the land in another part of the world”, he said.

The debris includes a part identified as a flaperon, that could possibly belong to MH-370. France’s civil aviation investigating authority, BEA, has been asked to coordinate an worldwide probe into the origin of the debris, said the statement from La Reunion officials.

Johnny Begue found the damaged suitcase close to the suspected MH370 debris.

They also called for Malaysia to reopen a help center for Chinese victims’ families that was closed on May 7, and for a third party to supervise the investigation into the plane’s disappearance, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Mr Truss said the discovery of wreckage on La Reunion was consistent with currents from the area search teams were scouring.

Australia will continue to search for MH370 within the existing search area, Truss said.

The wing component found on an Indian Ocean island may be brought to mainland France on Saturday for full investigation, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

If nothing else, the find – if confirmed to be part of MH370 – might finally dispel conspiracy theories that the plane may have landed safely and undetected, or that investigators were simply searching in the wrong place.