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The Telegraph reports:
07.23 [2015-07-30 07:23 - The most recent items are at the top of the page]
A metallic object described as six to nine feet long and three feet wide was found on a beach on the east coast of Reunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean. The object had the code number "BB670" on it.
[...] Why do officials think the object is from [missing Malaysian airliner] MH370?
[...] First, aviation experts say the object appears to be from a Boeing 777--and no other such aircraft is believed to have gone missing in the region. No Boeing 777 has ever been lost at sea.
Second, ocean experts say the object [a flaperon] is exactly where debris would have washed up from the plane's presumed crash point, several thousand miles to the east. Currents in that part of the Indian Ocean move anti-clockwise and would have carried the object northwards from the current search zone, off the coast of Western Australia, and then westwards towards Reunion.
[...] 13.21
The man who found the piece of wreckage [...] Johnny Bègue [...] is [in] charge of a team of eight people who have a contract to keep the popular beach clean in the town of Saint-Andre in the east of the tropical island.[...] the piece of a suitcase that may have been onboard flight MH370 lay unnoticed on the same beach [...] for nearly a day.
(Score: 1, Troll) by No Respect on Friday July 31 2015, @11:28AM
Y'all get back to me when it's confirmed that it's from the missing aircraft, OK? Until then stop wasting everyone's time with what it MIGHT be. I'll even concede that it probably IS from MH370, but that doesn't change my stance. STFU until you know for sure. kthxbye
I swear to FSM I hate the fucking MSM and twitter ain't far behind.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by shrewdsheep on Friday July 31 2015, @11:31AM
Why don't you just skip the article?
I, for one, hope to learn something about airplane identification from insightful/informative comments.
(Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Friday July 31 2015, @12:35PM
Well it's confirmed to be a part from a 777. Since every other 777 on the planet still has that part attached to it or accounted for in its assembly pipeline or crash debris from all the other 777 crashes (for which all the locations are know and are on land, not the ocean), it really can only be from one specific 777.
(Score: 3, Informative) by gman003 on Friday July 31 2015, @12:55PM
Well, it's now been confirmed [abc.net.au] via the serial numbers that it's from a 777. Only five have ever been lost - two crashed short of their runways, one burned at the gate, one was shot down by Russians over Ukraine, and the last was MH370. I can think of a few hypotheses besides MH370 that would have a flaperon wash up on shore, but their probability is minute. I'm 99% confident it's MH370.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday July 31 2015, @07:32PM
We need a new modifier: -1 - Shaddap You Face