Posted on 07/30/2015 4:56:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scientifically speaking, there's no reason the airplane fragment found Wednesday on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean, couldn't be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — even though it's 4,000 miles away from MH370's last known position before it vanished.
Investigators said it's too early to tell for sure whether the fragment really is from Flight 370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard in March 2014.
But the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, the Australian agency working with Malaysia to oversee the mammoth search, said the location of the fragment would be "consistent with other analysis and modelling that the resting place of the aircraft is in the southern Indian Ocean."
John Cox, chief executive of Safety Operating Systems, an aviation safety consulting company, told NBC News that the fragment doesn't look as though it was violently ripped off. Instead, he said, it suggested that the plane made something of a "soft" crash landing — perhaps in the water.
The fragment itself may make it clear where it came from — sources say Boeing Corp. investigators already believe it appears to have come from one of the company's 777s, sources told NBC News, and the only 777 missing in the world right now is MH370.
But if it doesn't include distinctive identifiers or other markings, however, it's still possible to figure out where the fragment came from.
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It looks like sharks have been chewing on the trailing edge of that thing.
That possible flight path is the exact opposite direction that the flight was supposed to be going.
Wonder if we’ll ever know the pilot’s intentions.
Not to sound too tinfoily but a wing and a suitcase would be a pretty cheap ruse, not necessarily for a terrorist but for some of these darned hoaxers. About every 10 years or so, someone goest to the expense of planting a period-correct flight boot or piece of metal along the possible flight path of Earhart, hoping to fool the world.
It wasn't the currents.
It was carried there by Obama's unicorns that poop Skittles.
(taste the rainbow)
“How Currents Could Have Carried Malaysia Airlines Wreckage All the Way to Reunion”
or it could have been planted there. /scepticism
3800 miles/500 days = .76 miles per day
no problem
7.6 miles per day
An all too little recognized piece of this story, is the effort and expense that Australia and the Australian taxpayers have put into this search. While granted they are the closest in geographical proximity to the southern search zones, they have been the mainstay in the search effort even though they had minimal exposure to this flight, MH370.
KUDOS to our Australian cousins!
Inquiring minds, mine, at least, want to know how, considering how big this piece is, if indeed the plane went down where they say it did, this piece was never seen in the exhaustive and painstaking searches that went on for months after the crash. Yes, I know the ocean is huge, but that is a big enough piece to be easily seen from the air or in satellite pictures. Could the fact that this piece was never seen perhaps indicate they were searching in the wrong area?
Remnants of a badly damaged suitcase have reportedly been found close to where plane debris, suspected of being part of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, has been recovered on Reunion Island.
Journalist Julien Delarue, who works for local paper Journal de L’île de la Réunion, reported on Twitter that what appears to be a suitcase has been found on the Indian Ocean island, less than a day after islanders discovered a two-metre long piece of debris.
The report included photographs of a man holding a badly damaged object that appeared to be a “suitcase on wheels”.
The French language news site said the man, a local gardener, had found the bag near where the debris was discovered less than a day earlier.
The photographs show the object has two rusted zippers, netting, and frayed cloth that resembles the lining seen on standard items of luggage
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