Debris found in Mozambique likely from MH 370

[spidervain]

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/debris-found-in-mozambique-likely-from-mh370-australia-says


Two pieces of aircraft debris washed up on the coast of Mozambique are “almost certainly” from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australia’s Transport Minister Darren Chester said.

Malaysian investigators have concluded that both pieces are “consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing Co. 777 aircraft,” Chester said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. The discovery is consistent with drift modeling and current search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, he said.

The aircraft vanished from radars on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. There has been no trace of the 239 people on board, making it modern aviation’s biggest mystery. Families of the victims want the hunt to continue even if the current search comes up empty, while investigators say the hunt will end unless fresh clues are found.

Vessels looking for the jet are due to finish scouring 120,000 square kilometers (46,330 square miles) of the southern Indian Ocean by the middle of the year. Authorities still have little idea what took place in the cockpit or why the plane flew off course.

[spidervain]

I wasn't sure if this warranted a new post, or if I should go back and tack it on to the mega-thread.

[aurora]

Mar 23, 2016 21:35:13 GMT -5 spidervain said:

I wasn't sure if this warranted a new post, or if I should go back and tack it on to the mega-thread.

I think it's worth a new one! I actually saw this when I couldn't post and then forgot, so I'm glad you did.

[KateAggie]

I feel like they've said "almost certainly" a few times before.

[iammalcolmx]

Really. So Putin dropped more debris in the Ocean a day after they found that ship that had been missing for 90 years? RECEIPTS PLEASE!!! Come on no one thinks these parts are from MH17?

[Velar Fricative]

So...this is just going to continue for years and years to come, right? Our kids, grandkids and great-grandkids are going to hear all about the legend of MH370. In 50 years, parts will drift ashore in Greenland (if it still exists in 50 years).

[Birdie]

Mar 24, 2016 8:00:31 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Really. So Putin dropped more debris in the Ocean a day after they found that ship that had been missing for 90 years? RECEIPTS PLEASE!!! Come on no one thinks these parts are from MH17?

I'm intrigued. What would be the motivation?

[Cicero]

If you're looking for conspiracy theories, it's also pretty convienently timed given the Malaysian PM is taking all sorts of flack for $1bn making its way into his personal account. It's something people have always "known" but now there is proof and the foreign media is actually picking it up.

[averyjessup]

So this is 4 now, right? The big piece on Reunion a while back, 1 on Madagascar a few weeks ago, and then these 2 now on Mozambique - and NONE of these pieces have the magical identifying serial number on them that every single piece of an airplane is meant to have?

ETA: nvm, looks like the Madagascar piece was actually in the Mozambique Channel and the article in the OP is referring to it as 1 of the 2 from Mozambique. So only 3 pieces. But still.