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posted by takyon on Friday July 31 2015, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the ongoing-investigation dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday July 31 2015, @05:07PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Friday July 31 2015, @05:07PM (#216400) Journal
    No, the whole plane is in some hangar, which may or may not be Russian. This piece was manufactured and planted so anyone thinking the plane was stolen would now think it was no longer air worthy. They just needed time to make the fake part/debris that showed up with the right serial number. What they plan to do with the still intact plane is up for debate though.

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