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What has been long suspect and almost expected since it was discovered last week has now been confirmed. The flaperon found on a beach on the French island of Réunion is definitely from that missing airliner:
Experts have determined that the aircraft part that washed up on the island of Réunion last week is definitely from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia announced in the early hours of Thursday (Wednesday afternoon Eastern time).
The part, known as a flaperon, was flown from Réunion, near Madagascar, to a laboratory in Toulouse, France, where Malaysian, Australian and French officials gathered on Wednesday to examine it, along with representatives from Boeing.
One mystery solved. Many more to go.
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Malaysian Prime Minister: Wing Fragment is From MH370
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:08PM
How do they know that this wing fragment is part of the plane? To be clear I'm fully prepared to believe it (and do believe it), but what is the forensic (?) evidence they use?
I can understand how an appropriate piece of metal could be narrowed down to be a part of a plane if there are appropriate tubes and holes and shape and materials used. How do they know it is from this particular plane? A serial number or something?
(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:29PM
As I recall, it's a combination of part number marked on the fragment and its serial number. However, it was pretty 100% certain that this part belonged to the missing plane from the beginning. People who know about the innards of Boeing 777's recognized it instantly as being from such a plane. Three 777's have been known with certainty to have been destroyed since its introduction: The BA flight that crash-landed at Heathrow, a 777 that was destroyed by a cockpit fire in Cairo, and the 777 shot down last year by the Russians (or their kin in the Ukraine). What's left?
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Thursday August 06 2015, @12:53AM
It was explained on Dutch TV that such parts usually have part numbers on the outside, but they often need to be disassembled to get to the unique serial numbers that are on the inside.