Volcano erupts on suspected MH370 wreckage island

Residents of Reunion Island are having a busy week.

Piton de la Fournaise means Peak of the Furnace and the extremely active 530,000-year-old volcano, erupts even a few times a year.

Yesterday, two metre long debris, considered to be a wing of a plane, washed up on the Indian Ocean island. “After 24 hours we still have five eruption sites. We are all convinced that it belongs to this flight [370]”, said aviation security expert Christophe Naudin on France’s BFM-TV. It was magical. It was the best present anyone could have given me.

Since February, it has been erupting periodically.

The newspaper offered an inventory of ideas for vacationers in search of a glimpse of the eruption: Carpool to the location to scale back visitors; don’t block different parked automobiles; put on snug strolling footwear; pack heat clothes and rain gear; and convey sufficient meals and water.

As well as the Piton de la Fournaise, it has an extinct volcano called the Piton des Neiges, which forms the highest point of the island.

The volcano erupts as soon as each 9 months, based on Reunion Island’s tourism web site. Therefore, Reunion must be a true volcano specialists’ heaven, because they actually get the chance to create their study setting before the actual eruption and in the event that an improvement to the technology that they use is found after the eruption itself, they have enough time to make the necessary modifications, but they do not have to wait for years and years until the next eruption happens.

Meanwhile, journalists arriving last week in Reunion to report on the discovery were met with the eruption of one of the Earth’s most active volcanoes.

Malaysia’s Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on Friday that a part number on the wreckage confirmed the object was from a Boeing 777.

Under a microscope and expert eyes, the wing fragment that washed up on the beach of the volcanic island could yield clues not just to its path through the Indian Ocean, but also to what happened to the airplane.

Some took to social media asking whether an eruption would interfere with the ongoing investigation into a suspected piece of debris that may come from the missing MH370 flight and which was discovered on Réunion’s shores on Wednesday.