Part of the plane showing up on the French island would fit with the ocean current models they have been using, they say.
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An Wednesday was confirmed to be a part of a wing flap of a Boeing 777, giving rise to hopes that certainly one of aviation’s biggest mysteries might lastly be solved.
Speaking to the Australian Daily Telegraph, Philippe said: ‘I walk along this beach all the time and 99 per cent of the debris that’s here comes from Reunion.’.
Meanwhile, more than 9,000 kilometres (5,500 miles) away, locals on La Reunion were scouring the beaches for more debris.
“We have responded positively to a request from the government of Malaysia“, deputy prime minister Xavier-Luc Duval said. The majority of media reports appear to associate “deliberate” with an intentional act of murder/suicide by someone who could disable all of the communications systems and intentionally fly the aircraft into the ocean.
The Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. One of the pieces was part of a suitcase, which is not believed to have been on the missing flight, and the other piece has been identified as a domestic ladder.
Mauritius said it would do all it can to search for more debris after Malaysia appealed to islands near La Reunion to hunt for clues.
Ferrier said he found the object in Saint Denis, the same place where an airplane wing was found last week.
The flaperon arrived in Toulouse over the weekend, but the fact that so many different countries and groups are involved in the search for the missing flight has complicated and delayed the situation somewhat.
The majority of the passengers on MH370 were Chinese and Australia had played a major role in the search for the aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean. Covering all of it is expected to take the search teams well into next year.
“It was probably part of that plane.”
Mark Tuttle, a professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, said in an email that all structural materials used in transport aircraft are heavy enough they will sink in saltwater.
But he said some oceanic barnacles were so widespread that pinpointing their precise origin would likely be impossible given the lack of genetic and population information about them.
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Jean-Paul Troadec, the former head of France’s BEA agency that investigates air accidents, said the analysis would focus on two issues – whether the flaperon belongs to MH370 and if so, whether it can shed light on the final moments of the plane.
