I'm...skeptical. What are the odds that two pieces wash ashore at nearly the exact same time when the plane has been missing for more than a year?
I suppose anything is possible but I need to see the receipts first. [insert Whitney gif here.]
What if the plane crashed in a location closer to Reunion?
I think it's conceivable that the plane crashed where investigators believe it did and debris made it over to Réunion based on the currents after all this time. However, the ocean is huge...and Réunion is a tiny speck in that ocean. The odds are unfathomable to me that two plane items washed ashore on this one tiny island within a day or so of each other. I don't know...again, I could be wrong here but this seems almost too good to be true now with two possible pieces of debris.
What if the plane crashed in a location closer to Reunion?
I think it's conceivable that the plane crashed where investigators believe it did and debris made it over to Réunion based on the currents after all this time. However, the ocean is huge...and Réunion is a tiny speck in that ocean. The odds are unfathomable to me that two plane items washed ashore on this one tiny island within a day or so of each other. I don't know...again, I could be wrong here but this seems almost too good to be true now with two possible pieces of debris.
The Austrailian investigators confirmed earlier that it's possible and likely debris from the presumed crash site could wash up on Reunion. The described that area of the ocean as "a washing machine" of currents that generally go westward. I guess it also had a wild year with lots of monsoons that stir everything up.
I still think it's really suspicious. The odds of this have to be so unbelievably small when they couldn't find any debris floating for so long. Things can spread a lot very quickly so this just seems weird to me. I'm a huge Titanic nerd and even within a couple weeks stuff was very far apart from each other on the surface, so far and few between that they gave up searching.
But, as if steeped in the weirdness of all things MH370, the Réunion flaperon came wrapped in an unexpected layer of ambiguity. All airline parts carry identifying labels, much as cars carry Vehicle Identification Numbers etched on the engine block. In the normal course of things, this plate should have been attached to the rib end of the flaperon and allowed investigators to make an instantaneous identification. As fate would have it, the plate is missing.
But, as if steeped in the weirdness of all things MH370, the Réunion flaperon came wrapped in an unexpected layer of ambiguity. All airline parts carry identifying labels, much as cars carry Vehicle Identification Numbers etched on the engine block. In the normal course of things, this plate should have been attached to the rib end of the flaperon and allowed investigators to make an instantaneous identification. As fate would have it, the plate is missing.
::puts tinfoil hat firmly back into place::
Yup!! So we are back in the Former Soviet Union eh?
How many large pieces of a 777 could actually be missing though?!?! Like that has to be a legit piece of a jet placed there to look like MH370. Where else could it have come from? There's not just a giant junkyard of 777 flaperons is there?
How many large pieces of a 777 could actually be missing though?!?! Like that has to be a legit piece of a jet placed there to look like MH370. Where else could it have come from? There's not just a giant junkyard of 777 flaperons is there?
Is it a piece of the one shot down shortly after the disappearance? That site was not secured well.
That’s why a hastily convened team of investigators from Malaysia, France, and the United States is meeting this Wednesday in Toulouse to open the sealed container in which the flaperon has been dispatched from Réunion. In the absence of a serial number, they’ll have to look for peculiarities of materials or construction that will allow them to say definitively that the flaperon came from MH370 and isn’t, as some have suggested, a discard from a parts factory in India.
How many large pieces of a 777 could actually be missing though?!?! Like that has to be a legit piece of a jet placed there to look like MH370. Where else could it have come from? There's not just a giant junkyard of 777 flaperons is there?
The article mentioned that this part could have been discarded from a factory in India.
How many large pieces of a 777 could actually be missing though?!?! Like that has to be a legit piece of a jet placed there to look like MH370. Where else could it have come from? There's not just a giant junkyard of 777 flaperons is there?
Is it a piece of the one shot down shortly after the disappearance? That site was not secured well.