I think it highly likely all occupants of that plane are dead. If they were trying to cross the vast Atlantic Ocean at evening, with night coming soon, and weren’t very skilled pilots, and the vast sea is an easy place to get lost - they very well may have crashed into the Atlantic.
Could also be sloppy paperwork. Either the battery wasn’t replaced or it was replaced but not noted. I’ve seen both types of errors by maintenance.
Possible debris find!
Would a piece as large as that float? I’m trying to understand whether this could mean that the search area has always been in the wrong place, or if this piece could have been carried by currents from the general location of the search area?
Then experts BBC is interviewing all agree this is exactly where it would have probably washed up 16 months on if the plane went down where they thought it did.
I believe the part found is made, in part, of composite materials buoyant enough to float, and most likely was carried a considerable distance by ocean currents. Unfortunately, this doesn’t do much to narrow down the crash location (as in, still thousands of square miles potentially).
No cite, but I seem to recall that pumice from the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic explosion was carried similar distances in about the same time frame.
No, but if this piece has shown up now, there may be others floating around nearby. They’re on the lookout now including in Madagascar to the west.
I’m wondering how accurately the speed of the prevailing currents can be predicted. Crossing that arc with the Inmarsat data could prove very useful.
They’re saying it is from a Boeing 777. This website lists crashes involving Boeing 777s, and there doesn’t seem to be any other incident than MH370 that this part could have come from.
If nothing else, it proves the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean.
I’m not being facetious.
Right, only one Boeing 777 has ever gone missing.
I am not intending to be mean, either, but I heard that this discovery is news the families of the victims were hoping to avoid - they were still holding out hope for… something else (?). After all this time I am surprised people still thought something other than a crash had occurred.
Maybe some of them were still hoping that the plane had landed on a remote island someplace. Altho I’m thinking that, after over a year, anybody still holding out hope crossed the line into pathological denial a long time ago.
Or mass alien abduction.
Or they were rebooting Lost.
Regards,
Shodan
CBS is reporting that this is what the experts believe, and they’re not likely to change the search area.
What’s also unsettling is that the Captain was found to have a flight simulator at home, in which he is alleged to have deleted flight paths to remote parts of the Indian Ocean, so with the recovery of this wreckage, and the supposed practice he did on his simulator, how far of a stretch is it to make that this was nothing other than a suicide?
The BBC has been running a graphic which shows simulated debris spreading. Basically by this point, given the previous search areas, the debris should be all over the southern Indian ocean. One piece of debris really can’t be traced back more than that. If a few more pieces are found consistent with that pattern, at best it will point to a several hundred square mile patch of ocean as the original crash location.
BBC: Plane door found on Reunion
No photos yet, but the door allegedly has “foreign writing” on it.
Yes, the best you can say is that it is consistent with the search area. You can’t work backwards and narrow down a more accurate search area, the opposite in fact.