Australian Expert Sent to Help in Examination of Possible MH370 Wreckage

Technical experts, including from US aerospace giant Boeing, are due to begin today examining the debris in France to determine conclusively whether it belonged to the flight and new evidence could help Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) narrow down the search area for the jetliner.

Three French magistrates, a Malaysian legal representative and an official from France’s civil aviation investigating authority will meet in Paris.

So far, the plane has not been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, in what has become one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.

Speaking to the Australian Daily Telegraph, Philippe said: ‘I walk along this beach all the time and 99 per cent of the debris that’s here comes from Reunion.’.

The part has been confirmed as coming from a Boeing 777.

After investigators unpack the flaperon, extensive videos and photographs must be taken, he said. The serrated damage at the trailing edge of the flaperon is most likely a result of transonic flutter caused by excessive speeds of the aircraft as would be experienced in a dive scenario performed intentionally or following fuel run-out. Only time will tell if this is, in fact, the same wing from the ill-fated flight.

“They will find it”, says John Goglia, a consultant and former member of the NTSB. A parts supplier confirmed 10-60754-1133 is a part number on a seal associated with 777s.

He also claimed he saw a couple of suitcases but burnt them without realising the possible significance of the find. Martin Dolan, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said the ladder was not a part of the plane.

Steve Wang still listens sometimes to the last voice mail his mother left for him before she boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

To learn more, the flight data recorders – or so-called black boxes – will be crucial. The plane part was found covered in barnacles, which will play an important role in determining how long the piece has been in the water, as the sea creatures have a specific growth rate which can be calculated, according to NBC News.

“Mauritius has responded to the call made by the Malaysian authorities, through the global press, for neighbouring countries to remain vigilant in locating any further debris“, said V. Neethalia, for the Head of Mission in the Mauritius High Commission here.

Australian experts have concluded that winds and ocean currents could have pushed wreckage from MH370 more than 2000 kilometres to the remote Reunion Island from where the Malaysian airliner is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

Truss said that if the flaperon is proven to be from MH370, its discovery did not “provide a great deal of help in specifically identifying where the aircraft is”.