'Certainty' that Reunion debris from MH370, French official says

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

A piece of debris that washed up on the shore of Reunion Island in July was part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday, backing up a statement that Malaysia's Prime Minister made weeks ago.

Following the analysis of the debris, it is "possible to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on the Reunion Island on July 29 2015 corresponds to the one on MH370," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The Malaysian Prime Minister said a few weeks ago that the debris clearly is from MH370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard in March 2014. Investigators in France had said there were "very strong presumptions" that the debris, called a flaperon, was from MH370, but that further testing was needed to say that with ironclad confidence.

In the early hours of March 8, 2014, Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia en route to Beijing, with 239 passengers and crew on board.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/europe/mh370-investigation/index.html

[edhopper]

1. There was never a doubt

there is only one 777 that is not accounted for that is MH370.
It could not be anything else.

[Codeine]

2. Our Usual Suspects have been cooking up CTs for the last few weeks.

One assumes even this won't slow them down.

[edhopper]

3. facts never get in the way.

[Angleae]

4. There was a slight chance it could be from somewhere else.

Spare parts go missing all the time, but something that large & expensive would require a monumental screw up, but it was possible.

[edhopper]

5. it wasn't a spare part

It was a wing. There was as much doubt as there is Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

[Angleae]

6. It was a part off a wing. Not the complete wing.

The flaperon (usually referred to as an aileron) is just another part. Spares exist (not many in this case, but they exist).

[edhopper]

8. Okay then

let's put the odds it wasn't from MH370 at under 1%.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. More details, some from BBC ....

Investigators learned Thursday that a series of numbers found inside the plane flaperon matches with records, held by a Spanish company that manufactured portions of the component, linking the debris to MH370, the office of Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/europe/mh370-investigation/index.html

(Posted because CNN has apparently updated the original article, with more details.)

French investigators had until now been more cautious on the provenance of the debris.

But on Thursday they said a technician from Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU) in Spain, which had made the part for Boeing, had formally identified one of three numbers found on the flaperon as being the same as the serial number on MH370.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34145127

So it's been identified by the people who made it.

[treestar]

9. More and more might wash up

Maybe using ocean currents there will be some chance to find the main wreckage and the black box.