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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 wonkey_monkey on Saturday August 01 2015, @08:08AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Saturday August 01 2015, @08:08AM (#216699) Homepage

    Had the aircraft augured in, completely out of control, the forces on everything would be much greater and the damage to everything would be extreme

    I wasn't aware you had a background in air crash investigation.

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