Last week I first posted about an aircraft part being found on Reunion Island, which is off the coast of Madagascar. Understandably there was quickly speculation that it might be from MH370, which has been missing since early 2014. Within a few days the assumption was that it was in fact from MH370. It seemed…
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I wonder if we will ever know what happened.
At least, as you said, it might help friends and families of the victims find some sense of closure. I can't imagine though how hard it must be to not know more.
The conspiracy theorists will just say that this piece is planted evidence by the people who really took the plane.
U can never shut up the conspiracy nuts. For them this is just more evidence of some bizarre cover-up by the lizard men that rule the world
Interesting in the NY Times article (which was some good aviation sources), Boeing and American officials seem to be hesitant. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/world/asia/mh370-wing-reunion.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Just to be a little fussy about terminology ... This isn't a missing flaperon. The *rest* of the plane is missing. This flaperon is found.
Actually, it hasn't been confirmed yet.
The French investigators went to pains to say they have NOT yet conclusively determined so. The Malaysian PM front ran the French investigator report by 20 minutes, presumably to try and appear in control due to a spiraling domestic scandal involving him being accused of stealing/receiving from a "donor" a massive sum of cash. He got enough news outlets/blogs like this one to just immediately repeat his announcement ad hominem - without waiting for the French - which was presumably the purpose of his 2am "announcement" to begin with. Anyway, point is this post is just inaccurate.
True, it seems very, very likely the flaperon is from mh370. But it still has not been officially confirmed and what's worse, the families of the victims will get to go through this media "confirmation" chirade in another week once the French authorities actually confirm it.
It would be helpful to see a diagram of where the flaperon is located on the wing. I have never seen this in any of the reporting on this find.