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FRENCH PROSECUTORS HAVE confirmed that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began.
“It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370,” Paris prosecutors said in a statement, confirming claims made by Malaysia’s prime minister last month.
The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8 last year, inexplicably veering off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
Mystery
The disappearance turned into one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation, sparking a colossal hunt in the Indian Ocean based on satellite data which hinted at MH370′s possible path.
Then at the end of July, a man on Reunion island — a French overseas territory — found the two-metre-long wing part, which was flown to France for tests by aviation experts.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was quick to announce that the piece belonged to MH370, but French investigators were more cautious, saying only there was a “very high probability” it came from the plane.
In the statement today, prosecutors said investigators discovered three numbers on the wing part, and later concluded that one of the figures corresponded to the serial number of an MH370 flaperon.
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Was there a doubt? It was the only Boeing 777 to have gone missing.
Were they sure it was from a 777?
Yes there was an element of doubt expressed in the differing positions of the French and Malaysian governments. Comments will appear below from conspiracy lovers who will persist with the grand cover-up nonsense. The scientists may now be able to track the journey of this part through the variety of molluscs attached.
Yes, they knew it was from a 777. It wouldn’t take long to establish that. But besides that, the Indian ocean is not exactly littered with large commercial planes.
Especially not 777s.
Was this not already confirmed awhile ago ?
My thoughts exactly Tony
Hi, the Malaysian Govt said it was the wing but that was before all the tests were completed
I miss Frank for these stories!
#bringbackFrank #numbercruncher
Bullshit it is
Huge cover up job was done here, using this wing part as a way for people to accept and forget about it
Hopefully the truth will come out someday for the sake of the families
Right so, Mulder.
Give us your version of events?
Honestly I find it a but suspicious too, a part of the plane turned up but not a single body or item of clothing has ever been found
ZZzzzzzzzzzzz
Justin sea life eat meat not wings of planes
Hope they find the rest of the aircraft and give there families some peace.
Lost
Get Lost
NO
How does it take so long for a yes no answer a two meter piece from a plane has more than enough info to identify it
have your say