Number on Reunion Island debris corresponds to Boeing 777 component
Last edited Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:18 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: CNN
Saint-Denis, Reunion Island (CNN)Boeing investigators are confident debris found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean comes from a 777 aircraft, according to a source close to the investigation.
Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which went missing in March 2014 with 239 people on board, was a Boeing 777. It's the only Boeing 777 that disappeared over water and is unaccounted for, according to the Aviation Safety Network, an online database of flight incidents.
People cleaning a beach found the debris Wednesday on Reunion, a French overseas territory in the western Indian Ocean.
The source said investigators feel confident the piece comes from a 777 because of photos that have been analyzed and a number that corresponds to a 777.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/world/mh370-debris-investigation/index.html
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Unless someone was playing a prank and took a part from MH17 and planted it on a Reunion beach.
There are no other 777s missing.
groundloop
(11,632 posts)Please please please let the black boxes be found so the families of the victims can finally know what happened.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Ocean currents took the wreckage there. That wreckage could have drifted for thousands of miles.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,573 posts)How the Hell are they going to have live 24/7 coverage from Reunion if they can't even find the island?
brooklynite
(95,635 posts)...to "simulate" the drifting of debris based on the currents in the Indian Ocean...
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,573 posts)only simulated rowing. RIP, Peter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bird
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)rickford66
(5,548 posts)some pieces were left behind.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The country that stole the plane, dumped/planted the wing in the ocean.
It was one of those countries that spent a lot of time out there, months helping search.