MH370: Were Investigators Right Or Wrong: A New Debris In Reunion Island Keeps Everyone Wondering. [PHOTOS]

by Benson Agoha | Aviation Mishaps

Aircraft debris found on Réunion would support view that missing jet crashed in southern Indian Ocean

On March 8, 2014, A Malaysian Passenger Jet carrying 239 passenger on board went missing shortly after take off. It was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

It has remained an unsolved mystry and one that Aviation experts have been racking their brain trying to find a solution. Since the disappearance it is not 507 days. 

But when an unmarked piece of an air-craft washed up thousands of miles outside of the suspect zone of the Indian Ocean, the issue of MH370 has come into review. It was found in the Island of Reunion - a French Territory.

Credit: via WSJ

Credit: via WSJ

According to the Wall Street Journal, the piece of the airplane debris washed ashore on an island near the island of Madagascar, located on Africa's south east "could be the first tangible evidence that investigators were on the right track in their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, supporting the view that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean."

Emerging reports say the US Authorities have expressed increased confidence that the findings belong to MH370. Here are other findings below:

According to Fox News "A US official says that air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that the debris that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island belongs to a Boeing 777, the same aircraft as the missing Malaysia Air Flight MH370."

Antoine Forestier tweeted: "Picture of the suitcase found this morning at Saint-André."

Sumisha Naidu tweeted: "another photo of the suitcase reportedly found near a wing piece on Reunion Island"

AirLive.net tweeted "BREAKING 657-BB code found on wreckage is Boeing 777 flaperon according to manual":

"Authorities on the French island Réunion on Wednesday contacted counterparts in Australia and Malaysia, as well as aircraft manufacturers, to try to determine the origin of the piece of debris found on the island thousands of miles west of the Flight 370 search zone off Australia’s western coast." according to the WSJ.

But French authorities told Reuters that the origin of the plane debris has not yet been identified.

Despite the distance between the location of the find and the suspect zone(between 3800 to 4000 miles), aviation experts said it is entirely possible.
See further photos below:

Credit: via Le Journal

Credit: via Le Journal

Credit: via Le Journal

Credit: via Le Journal

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* by Benson Agoha (with Lead and report from WSJ, HuffPost, Le Journal)