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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 12:35 PM Aug 2015

MH370: Malaysians say parts of windows, seat cushions have washed up

Source: CNN

CNN)—Malaysia's transport ministry said Thursday that more plane parts have washed up on the same island as a wing part believed -- with varying degrees of certainty -- to be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Those new items, which the Malaysians described as pieces of windows, seat cushions and aluminum material, will be tested by the same international team of experts who are examining a piece of a wing that the Malaysians said Wednesday is definitely from MH370.

Less than an hour after the Prime Minister's statement on Wednesday, Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak used slightly less definitive language. Mackowiak said that there were "very strong presumptions" that the debris from the French island in the western Indian Ocean was from MH370, but certainty was not yet possible.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/world/mh370-investigation/

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MH370: Malaysians say parts of windows, seat cushions have washed up (Original Post) Sunlei Aug 2015 OP
Well, if the parts are from a 777... longship Aug 2015 #1
In other news - every piece of Reunion Island beach junk is going to be claimed as a plane part jberryhill Aug 2015 #2
Hopefully they won't get sneakers washing up uppityperson Aug 2015 #3
That's been going on a long time jberryhill Aug 2015 #4
Strange how they are all just washing up at the same time Reter Aug 2015 #5
Sorry, but no. blackspade Aug 2015 #6
Sounds like you should start a conspiracy theory thread in the dungeon snooper2 Aug 2015 #7
Did you see the pictures of the flaperon? MicaelS Aug 2015 #9
Who would steal a 12-year-old B777 Blue_Tires Aug 2015 #11
beyond sad cindyperry Aug 2015 #8
No mystery at all. MicaelS Aug 2015 #10

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Well, if the parts are from a 777...
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 12:58 PM
Aug 2015

...doesn't it have to be MH370? How many 777s have crashed in the Indian Ocean? Only one.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
2. In other news - every piece of Reunion Island beach junk is going to be claimed as a plane part
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 12:58 PM
Aug 2015

Take this:






Whether it is or is not a part of some kind from an airplane, or from MH370 is yet to be determined, but this was latched onto last week as "part of a window" despite the fact that it in no way resembles a 777 window.



The lengthwise opening in the piece of plastic the guy is holding, is no longer than his hand. The windows aren't that small, even on the emergency doors (there is an image of a 777 emergency door, but I can't hotlink the picture).

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
3. Hopefully they won't get sneakers washing up
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 01:51 PM
Aug 2015

Here in the Pacific NW we've had several sneakers with feet inside floating upside down washing up.

 

Reter

(2,188 posts)
5. Strange how they are all just washing up at the same time
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 02:07 PM
Aug 2015

If the crash happened two weeks ago, it would be normal. But it went missing in March of 2014. Perhaps it was hijacked on a nearby island that March and just blown up the past month?

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
7. Sounds like you should start a conspiracy theory thread in the dungeon
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 02:39 PM
Aug 2015

Work out the hijacker piece first...BFEE or PIRATES!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
11. Who would steal a 12-year-old B777
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 03:07 PM
Aug 2015

eliminate the crew+passengers, hide it for a year without being seen, blow it up without being seen, and dump debris in the water without being seen?

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
10. No mystery at all.
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 05:15 PM
Aug 2015

It took this long for the parts to be moved by currents from the Southern Indian ocean to the point where they are being found.

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