Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 missing!

Investigators 'confident' that Boeing 777 wing found

Malaysia’s deputy transport minister has said that it is “almost certain” that a piece of plane wreckage that has washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion was part of a Boeing 777 aircraft – the model of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Kashmira Gander writes.
Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told Reuters it is “almost certain” that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-777-wing-found--latest-updates-10425869.html
 
I wouldn't make that bet if I was you...

MH370 search: Suitcase found close to wreckage washed up on Reunion island

0:11, 30 July 2015
By Sam Webb

Johnny Begue, the head of a cleaning team, found the aircraft debris that looks increasingly likely to be from the Malaysia Airlines flight that has been missing since March 8, 2014

A suitcase was found by workers on a Reunion beach - close to the site where an aircraft part believed to be from missing flight MH370 was discovered.

Johnny Begue, the head of a cleaning team, found the aircraft debris that looks increasingly likely to be from the Malaysia Airlines flight that has been missing since March 8, 2014.

This morning, he again went to the scene and found the remains of a suitcase on wheels, in the same area as the aircraft debris, reports Le Journal de la Reunion.

The small rusty suitcase was locked with a padlock. It was taken away by police

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so how long has that supposedly been there? because when you look at them lifting the piece of metal, there is no indentation on the grass whatsoever. it looks as if someone has plonked it there.
 
Interesting educational model for surface movement of marine plastics here.

Almost without fail, almost everything - with a level of buoyancy - dropped virtually anywhere in the Indian Ocean ends up on the east coast of Africa and the islands such as Reunion and Madagascar, although further southwest of Oz most floating things start getting swept eastwards.

Then of course, stuff with limited buoyancy i.e. things floating below the surface might well be influenced by a number of other currents and flows - including storm tides, etc.
 
We can't make this stuff up anymore. They've had to evacuate that area where the debris washed up, because of a volcanic eruption.

MH370 investigators evacuated as Reunion Island volcano set to erupt

INVESTIGATORS examining a piece of debris suspected to belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been forced to temporaily flee the site where the part washed up.

An emergency evacuation is under way on the south-eastern side of La Reunion island, where the World Heritage-listed volcano, Le Piton de la Fournaise has recorded unusual seismic activity.

Scientists at island’s volcanic observatory, the OVPF, warned an eruption was “imminent and probable”.

Up to 10 Malaysian aviation experts reportedly arrived at La Reunion yesterday morning only to be evacuated almost immediately.

The volcano is situated south of Saint-André, where the plane debris was located. It is unclear how an impending eruption could affect the probe. However, volcanic ash clouds would have the potential to cause future air searches to be delayed indefinitely.

A spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told News.com.au that the minister had not yet been briefed on the situation.
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Compton_effect said:
We can't make this stuff up anymore. They've had to evacuate that area where the debris washed up, because of a volcanic eruption.

INVESTIGATORS examining a piece of debris suspected to belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been forced to temporaily flee the site where the part washed up.
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MH370 investigators evacuated as Reunion Island volcano set to erupt
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Well, if they were there to examine the debris they were too late anyway. It was shipped off to France yesterday.

Investigators in Toulouse are hoping to unlock the mystery of the disappeared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as the piece of plane wreckage found washed up on a beach on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion is transferred to France for official identification.

The two-metre, barnacle-encrusted chunk of metal debris which emerged from the sea this week has raised hopes of discovering what happened to the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight which mysteriously disappeared from radars last March, vanishing without trace with 239 people on board.

The piece of debris – known as a flaperon – left the island on Friday night on Air France flight AF671 and is expected to arrive on Saturday morning at a special French defence laboratory in Toulouse, the hub of Europe’s aerospace industry. There, investigators are expected to start work on confirming whether or not it was from the missing Boeing 777 that has confounded an international search mission for over a year.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mh370-switches-france-flaperon-flown-toulouse
 
Barnacles on debris could provide clues to missing MH370 - experts

Barnacles encrusted on a piece of plane debris that washed up on the French island of Reunion might help unravel the mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared last year with 239 passengers and crew on board.

Malaysia said on Sunday the piece of debris, a 2-2.5 metre wing surface known as flaperon, had been identified as being from a Boeing 777, the same model as the missing Malaysian plane. Investigators in France are expected to determine whether the piece came from MH370 or not by Wednesday.

MH370 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, about 3,700km away from Reunion.

Based on photographs, ecologists in Australia believe the crustaceans clinging to the wing piece are goose or stalk barnacles.

“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.

The technique is also used to study the movement of whales.

Experts analyse barnacle shells to determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed to help reveal their origin.

While the technique could help narrow the area of the search for MH370 to within tens, or hundreds, of kilometres, it was unlikely to pinpoint an exact location, Pearson said.

Barnacles can be aged, based on growth rates and size. If the barnacles on the debris are older than the date MH370 went missing, it would rule it coming from that plane, said Melanie Bishop a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University.

Ecologists would look at whether the barnacles were on the surface of the flaperon or confined to the sides as that could indicate whether the debris moved on the surface of the water or was submerged.
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more:
http://ewn.co.za/2015/08/03/Barnacles-on-debris-could-provide-clues-to-missing-MH370--experts
 
grantza said:
more:
http://ewn.co.za/2015/08/03/Barnacles-on-debris-could-provide-clues-to-missing-MH370--experts
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Could scientists use the prevailing currents around Reunion to work out where the piece came from? I also can't imagine it would've traveled thousands (or even hundreds) of miles to get there so there is every chance it went down 'close by'?
 
Agent_Smith said:
Could scientists use the prevailing currents around Reunion to work out where the piece came from? I also can't imagine it would've traveled thousands (or even hundreds) of miles to get there so there is every chance it went down 'close by'?
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Read a few posts above yours for your answer.

Experts analyse barnacle shells to determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed to help reveal their origin.

While the technique could help narrow the area of the search for MH370 to within tens, or hundreds, of kilometres, it was unlikely to pinpoint an exact location, Pearson said.
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genetic said:
Read a few posts above yours for your answer.
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Ah right. Yeah, it wouldn't be an exact location but it would certainly help narrow the search area. Searching in hundreds of kilometers is infinitely more doable than thousands. Hope they find this thing!
 
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