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Posted on 07/29/2015 10:00:00 PM PDT by Kartographer
Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
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Given that there are no other missing 777s, if the piece is confirmed to be from such an aircraft, it would almost certainly have to belong to Flight 370, which vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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Explosive residue to be found at this late date?
Evidence of a fire anywhere?
Shrapnel from an explosion embedded in the flapperon?
Component part serial numbers anywhere? (Go ahead, take it apart!)
Whose fingerprints are on non saltwater-exposed parts?
HF
Evert part on a Boeing has a unigue serial number.
It only takes a couple of seconds to find out where the flaperon came from.
They likely already know and holding off announcing so they can set up a ceremony or news concurrence. CNN will probably cover it.
Conveniently timed to distract from the Iran deal and planned parenthood videos.
yep. sit on it...and wait.
Mullah Omar, too.
Wag the dog. Something else will be bigger news than this.
“US official:”
Somehow that just doesn’t seem too assuring nowadays. In
fact when I here it I assume the opposite to be true.
What a shame.
I find it odd that just one single piece of debris is found washed up without any other debris quite a distance from shore. It’s almost like someone planted it there. But hey I’m no aviation expert.
Now found suitcase
Ah, the Black Hole finally spit MH-370 back out.
Indian Ocean currents suggest those parts would most likely have drifted to that Island after a crash along a route generally toward that part of Africa.
Oddly, though, there is a current from western Australian waters that goes north and would intersect the current toward Africa, so that possibility isn’t ruled out.
Seems much more likely, though, that the plane would have been going in the general direction of southeast Africa. Then the current would have been almost direct to Reunion island of Madagascar.
Expert on FOX said current go in circular motion and finding it here would be consistent with that
Ah... maybe... maybe not...we do not have sophisticated email and computers or cellphones on this island to verify serial numbers on the flap?
Good Map
Would the current circles get smaller toward the center? If so the wreckage would Be closer to center of the flow.
Flapper on is from the right wing. One closest to island if in flight
My memory says there were early reports that the plane was headed in the direction of Africa. And the equatorial countercurrent makes getting to Madagascar, if the crash were near Australia, a bit dicier than simply being on that Madagascar heading in the first place.
If I remember there are many unmanned islands where debris may have come ashore.
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