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France says wing part found on Reunion island definitely from MH370
Reuters ^ | 9-3-2015

Posted on 09/03/2015 10:26:58 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

The piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has been formally identified as part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

The part, known as a flaperon, was found on the shore of the French-governed island on July 29 and Malaysian authorities have said paint color and maintenance-record matches proved it came from the missing Boeing (BA.N) 777 aircraft.

The French prosecutor, who had until Thursday's statement been more cautious on its provenance, said a technician from Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU) in Spain, which had made the part for Boeing, had formally identified one of three numbers found on the flaperon as being the serial number of the MH370 Boeing 777.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aviation; france; mh370
So they just have to do a reverse ocean current analysis to find the rest?
1 posted on 09/03/2015 10:26:58 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

You truly believe they’re capable of such a thing? I mean it took them how long to figure out the wing was from the missing plane even though it was verified from the same type of airliner? I mean, it’s not like there were a bunch of them unaccounted for in that region of the ocean, or anywhere else in the world for that matter.


2 posted on 09/03/2015 10:31:27 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Citizen Zed

“The part, known as a flaperon....”

You see, son, when a flap and an aileron love each other very much, they go to the church and get married, and 9 months later a little flaperon is born!


3 posted on 09/03/2015 10:32:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Citizen Zed

The rest of the plane flow on to Fillinthestan!


4 posted on 09/03/2015 10:34:41 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: sevinufnine

“You truly believe they’re capable of such a thing?”

I’m no oceanologist, but I think that it’s pretty routine. We do track the currents, after all, so we have all the data we need.

Might be a lot of data crunching to do, but it seems like the job would be tedious rather than difficult.


5 posted on 09/03/2015 10:35:25 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: sevinufnine

They flatly said two days ago the flapper did not come from the plane. I smell a rat. They want to end this investigation now so all the sudden it’s the “real thing”. BS.


6 posted on 09/03/2015 10:36:42 AM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Citizen Zed

The conspiracy nutjobs who say Al Qaeda hijacked it to use for a later mission will only say that they removed this part, replaced it and fixed the aircraft with a new one and then planted the original part on Reunion island to throw off suspicion.


7 posted on 09/03/2015 10:36:59 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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Me thinks a Malaysian F-18 shot MH-370 down once the aircraft went rogue.
8 posted on 09/03/2015 10:37:39 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: NKP_Vet

And also, WHY WASN’T THIS PART IMMEDIATELY SENT TO BOEING IN AMERICA instead of FRANCE? That’s a huge stinking RAT the size of an elephant in the room!


9 posted on 09/03/2015 10:39:01 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

They did a good job covering it with barnacles, too.


10 posted on 09/03/2015 10:40:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
instead of FRANCE?

Because Reunion Island is French?

11 posted on 09/03/2015 10:53:05 AM PDT by xone
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“Me thinks a Malaysian F-18 shot MH-370 down once the aircraft went rogue.”

Possible, but did they even prove that it was purposely off course yet, based on the projected downing site?


12 posted on 09/03/2015 10:55:55 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: Moonman62

They’ll have an explanation for that too.


13 posted on 09/03/2015 12:34:05 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: NKP_Vet

They flatly said two days ago the flapper did not come from the plane. I smell a rat. They want to end this investigation now so all the sudden it’s the “real thing”. BS.

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Did a google search (albeit very quickly) and could not find anything as you have suggested above, that it did not come from the plane.

Saw a reference to a science writer who suggested it could not have floated over there, but nothing from the French.


14 posted on 09/03/2015 12:38:23 PM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mh370-debris-found-reunion-may-not-be-missing-plane-say-manufacturers-wing-1517886

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/29/europe/mh370-part/


15 posted on 09/03/2015 4:40:00 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Don’t forget that we’re dealing with a muzzie pilot, muzzie co-pilot and that the plane was owned by muzzies. what is so inscrutable about the whole affair?


16 posted on 09/03/2015 5:27:02 PM PDT by 353FMG
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