KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s prime minister says experts in France have determined that a barnacle-encrusted airplane wing fragment came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said at a news conference on Wednesday that “an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed MH370.”
The wing fragment washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and was sent to France, where experts began examining it on Wednesday. Investigators will analyze the metal with high-powered microscopes to probe what caused the plane to go down.
The Boeing 777 disappeared after veering far off its planned northerly course from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing.
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The conspiracy nuts will need to change their stories again. Let’s see, the wing was planted by:
Nut jobs.
CNN has this headline in the biggest font ever. It’s also the non-story of the year. A single piece, from a plane that’s been missing for 17 months, has turned up. From that, we can conclude…
…nothing.
When the black boxes wash up on shore, we’ll have a story.
It’s a FALSE flag to divert attention from Clinton’s e-mails, Jade Helm, and BENGHAZI!!! Wake up sheeple! The truth is RIGHT in FRONT of you on the INterntubes! It’s just like INVASION of the BODY SNATCHERS! YOU. HAVE. BEEN. WARNED!!!one!!!
Unfortunately black boxes don’t float so they’re unlikely to wash up anywhere. I think it would be a triumph of science if they could examine the species of barnacle attached to the fragment and tell from whence it floated. I apologize for the gratuitous use of the word “whence”. Also, “gratuitous”.
Actually some info can be obtained from that piece. They can tell if it broke off on an impact, or before impact, or it was part of a glide type landing, etc. That’s a start. Plus it quashes all these asinine conspiracy theories about it being diverted to Iran, Israel, Diego Garcia, etc. Plus, it already confirms that the area they are searching in is the correct area based on currents and elapsed time compared with debris location. Before this they were not 100% sure they were searching in the right area.
This actually is a huge deal. It’s all the other nonsense that was not news. Seeing debris or oil slicks on the ocean never should have been a headline. Finding a large part of the actual jet is headline news, yes.