MH370: Reunion Island wreckage source revealed today

MH370 inexplicably veered off course in March 2014 and disappeared from radars. His feedback got here at a press convention in Selangor, the place he spoke concerning the newest developments within the investigation into Malaysia Airways Flight MH370’s disappearance.

Azharuddin reiterated Kuala Lumpur’s commitment that it would do everything necessary to assist in the verification process and any subsequent investigation that might be undertaken in France even as Malaysia continued its own investigations into this matter.

They were due to release a statement after the meeting.

On August 2, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai confirmed that the piece of wreckage was part of Boeing 777, but whether it was from Flight MH370 had yet to be ascertained.

Malaysian officials are playing down the finding of more debris on Reunion, an island near Madagascar, in the past few days, including what was reported to be from a sewing machine.

Since the passenger jet went missing almost 17 months ago with 239 people aboard, there have been frequent false alarms amid the far-flung efforts to locate it. Objects initially flagged as possible plane debris turned out to be plain old flotsam and jetsam.

Before the part arrived in France, investigators had a high-degree of confidence that the flaperon was from a Boeing 777, and therefore most likely from Malaysia 370. It will be put under a microscope that can magnify images 10,000 times.

Jean-Paul Troadec, ex-director of France’s civil aviation safety bureau, BEA said “we should not expect miracles from this analysis”.

In order to provide clues on what happened to the aircraft, “the part would need to be at the centre of the accident and the chances are fairly small”, he noted.

“Barnacle shells … can tell us valuable information about the water conditions under which they were formed”, said Ryan Pearson, a PhD student at Australia’s Griffith University who is studying the shell chemistry of barnacles to determine migration patterns of endangered loggerhead turtles. Further computer modeling of gyres and weather systems can be performed to work backwards from a given debris location to help further refine the location of origin of the crash site. What we do know is that the wing appears to have come from a Boeing 777, the same type of plane as MH370. Most of the passengers were Chinese.

“People are more vigilant”.

Part of the plane showing up on the French island would fit with the ocean current models they have been using, they say.