French prosecutors can say “with certainty” that a plane wing found on Reunion Island in July is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared last year, BBC reported Thursday.
French prosecutors say ‘with certainty’ wing part found on Reunion Island in July came from missing flight MH370 http://t.co/4iDpJ2SxCv
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 3, 2015
The news comes weeks after the Malaysian Prime Minister said the part belongs to the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared with 239 passengers on March 8, 2014.
The airplane part, called a flaperon, was found washed up on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
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Now the question is, will we get any answers?
They’ll possibly be able to tell if the plane underwent a hard or soft impact when the part detached from the aircraft, from what I’ve heard/read…
We already have. Based on currents and elapsed time, the current search area has been determined to be quite accurate, that’s very important to be confirmed. Also, they can possibly tell if the wing was intact when the plane hit the water, etc.
Oh, it also shuts up some of the conspiracy nuts. Not all of them yet, but some (the “Diego Garcia”, “Mossad” and “Iran” nuts).
If there is one thing I’ve learned about conspiracy nuts its that they never shut up, give up, or go away. You can provide them with reams of evidence disproving their theories and they still will claim that they’re right.
And yes, we’re getting answers…some answers at least. I hope we learn more.
Yes, the “suicide hijacker” nuts are still yapping. Of course that makes no sense. If the guy was looking to make a political statement, he would have crashed it into a building in Malaysia. There are also some nuts who think one or more passengers were targets of a hit. Also silly.
Reality is likely a fire on board, smoke situation, pilots incapacitated, plane then flies on autopilot until out of fuel. So instead of suicide pilots, more like heroic effort pilots.