The fact that this piece of wreckage may have turned up on Reunion island corroborated the belief that, based on the satellite data tracked by Inmarsat, the aircraft ended up in the ocean somewhere off the Southwest coast of Australia.
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Though several officials have expressed confidence that the debris found on the French island of Reunion is from a Boeing 777, French authorities are planning to send the piece to southern France for analysis.
“With a microscope, that can learn details from the torn metal”, said Xavier Tytelman, a French aviation safety expert.
“It won’t tell you how the plane crashed, but it will be a step in that direction”, Cox said.
“It’s been 16 months from the crash and everything fits together”, said oceanographer Arnold Gordon of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “And so I don’t think it contributes a great deal in as far as our knowledge of where the aircraft is located at the present time”.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said while the part “could be a very important piece of evidence” if it was linked to MH370, using reverse modelling to determine more precisely where the debris may have drifted from was “almost impossible”. But the debris is unlikely to provide much help in tracing the ocean currents back to the location of the main wreckage, he said. When the plane is banking, the flaperon on one wing tilts up and the other tilts down, which makes the plane roll to the left or right as it turns.
“We have had many false alarms before, but for the sake of the families who have lost loved ones, and suffered such heartbreaking uncertainty, I pray that we will find out the truth so that they may have closure and peace”, said Najib. The part could arrive Saturday morning, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The 6ft-long wing flap, which experts believe comes from a Boeing 777 like the Malaysian Airlines plane, was half covered in sand and had barnacles encrusted on its edges.
Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. He displayed a laundry bottle from Indonesia, 6,700 kilometers (4,100 miles) away, as an example. “That explains how the debris from the Malaysian plane could have reached here”.
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Australian officials expressed skepticism that the suitcase fragment was associated with the wing part. Truss, the transport minister, noted that there did not appear to be any marine life attached to the suitcase, indicating it probably hadn’t been in the water for long.
Mr Begue was clearing the popular beach of rubbish when he and his colleagues spotted the piece of debris, believed to be from a plane’s wing.
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Johnny Begue, 46, who says he found the piece of aircraft debris that is being investigated, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Saint-Andre, on Reunion Island, Thursday July 30, 2015.
