MH370: wreckage found on Reunion 'matches Malaysia Airlines flight'

[Bosonic]

Source: The Telegraph

A French aviation expert believes he may have found the wreckage of MH370 – the Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared off the coast of Malaysia in March 2014.

Xavier Tytelman, a former military pilot who now specialises in aviation security, was contacted on Wednesday morning by a man living on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. The man sent Mr Tytelman a series of photos showing wreckage of a plane, which the Frenchman said could possibly be the missing jet.

"I've been studying hundreds of photos and speaking to colleagues," Mr Tytelman told The Telegraph. "And we all think it is likely that the wing is that of a Boeing 777 – the same plane as MH370.

"Police in Reunion examining the wreckage say that it looks like it's been in the water for around a year, which again would fit with MH370. We can't say for certainty, but we do think there is a chance that this is it."

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11771229/MH370-wreckage-found-on-Reunion-matches-Malaysia-Airlines-flight.html

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope it is that wreckage. Finally some closure for the waiting families. n/t

[Helen Borg]

9. Still no idea what happened though...

I'd be pretty upset...

[George II]

2. There should be serial numbers on some of the parts or lot numbers on some...

...of the rubber parts that Boeing can use to track the aircraft on which they were installed.

[ColesCountyDem]

3. Interesting... n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. Now THIS is "Latest Breaking News"

!!!

I hope for the sake of the grieving families that this is real and some answers may come...

[John1956PA]

8. The UK sites, The Telegraph and The Mirror, have this story. CNN does not.

The CNN site still has the large photo of the Taliban leader who (it has now been confirmed) was killed a few years ago.

I do not care for the CNN site. The page is difficult to load on my browser, and the news stories are not up to the minute.

ON Edit: As of 12:47 PM, CNN's site has a link to CNN.GO which is carrying a live report on this discovery.

[LiberalEsto]

10. It's not on BBC or the Guardian as of 1:08 pm nt

[4139]

5. Well that pic is definitely not an oversized sea cucumber

[YoungDemCA]

6. And CNN curses their bad luck that *they* weren't the ones to break this story

nt

[RedSpartan]

7. That looks to be a long way from where they thought it crashed.

I hope it hasn't just floated there over the course of a year from someplace we'll never find. Still, I hope it will bring some bit of closure.

[Fred Sanders]

17. Reunion is near Madagascar,on the east side, and the wing had a year to float to there perhaps?

[RedSpartan]

18. Yeah, that's the problem as I see it.

A year to float there, but from where? Seems to me this won't help them find the plane. Hope I'm wrong, though.

[question everything]

11. Also from the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3178978/Debris-floating-Indian-Ocean-missing-Malaysia-Airlines-flight-370.html


Debris found floating in Indian Ocean may be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 12:03 EST, 29 July 2015 | Updated: 12:10 EST, 29 July 2015

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Officials are examining debris found washed up on Reunion island east of Madagascar to determine if it is related to Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which vanished in 2014.

The debris appears to be part of a wing and was taken onto the island, a French department, this morning, according to Adjutant Christian Retournat.

'It is way too soon to say whether or not it is MH370. We just found the debris this morning in the coast of Saint Andre,' Retournat told CNN Wednesday.

The flat, white hunk of metal is almost certainly a part of an airplane wing. More specifically, Metro reports it is that of a Boeing 777, the same model plane as MH370, which went down after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 8, 2014 en route to Beijing.

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Let's hope that the families can finally know what happened.

[FLPanhandle]

12. That part looks remarkable undamaged

If it's from the missing airliner, that may indicate a more controlled decent into the ocean instead of a high speed impact.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. or that the other side of the plane hit the water first (nt)

[marble falls]

13. Dear gawd, do not let Wolf Blitzer or the CNN Holodeck find out about this!!!!!

[jtuck004]

14. +whatever it takes.n/t

[olddots]

19. Wolf Ballon Boy Blitzer has graphics coming up after these messages .

[hack89]

15. When you look at the ocean currents in the Indian Ocean, this makes sense

there is a large counter-clockwise current that goes west from Australia to north of Madagascar and then south. It is a logical place to find floating debris. Unfortunately it does not tell us anything where the plane crashed.

[cosmicone]

22. Actually, all the currents flow towards Madagaskar

and Reunion is on the way to Madagaskar...

[hack89]

24. Reunion is on the southern leg of that current

but I think we are basically saying the same thing.

[dembotoz]

20. Gives new meaning to the middle of nowhere

Alarmingly close to Somalia...you don't spose...

[Bosonic]

21. US official: Debris in photo belongs to Boeing 777

US official: Debris in photo belongs to Boeing 777

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year.

The official says investigators — including a Boeing air safety investigator — have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a 777 wing.

A French official close to the investigation confirmed Wednesday that French law enforcement is on site to examine a piece of airplane wing found on the French island of Reunion, in the western Indian Ocean.

The U.S. and French officials spoke on condition that they not be named because they aren't authorized to speak publicly.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ca0fe9f3e1c34132894f28433992b9fb/us-official-debris-photo-belongs-boeing-777

[The Second Stone]

23. If that is it, the black box won't be too far off.

Rest in peace.

[Angleae]

26. Depends on how far that part drifted.

Chances are that part broke off during the crash, the black boxes are probably deep underwater.

[treestar]

25. CNN will go nuts

Their favorite subject.

[randome]

29. A year-long re-enactment of how the wreckage floated to its resting place.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[treestar]

32. Sure enough at the gym today

where I can see but not hear CNN, the whole time I was on the elliptical there were diagrams of currents in the Indian Ocean and shots of the item found.

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. Map .....island of Reunion

[Sunlei]

28. just one large piece? and floated for a year? maybe theres more on the beach there

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. The metal pieces would need to be airtight

which means they have to start that way, and not have been broken in the impact. Bits like this 'flaperon' are good candidates for that - attached to the rest of the plane by struts that would probably break before the piece itself would; but there may not be too many of them. But I think they have said they'll do a search on other beaches nearby, and maybe ask Madagascar and South Africa to keep an eye out too.

[Reter]

30. How close is it to Diago Garcia?

n/t