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Title    Piece of 777 Wing Found on Reunion Island; Likely from MH370
Date    Friday July 31 2015, @10:25AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the ongoing-investigation dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/31/0246237

"gewg_" writes:

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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