Flight 370: Debris on Reunion Island Corresponds to Boeing 777 Component

[Unsettomati]

Saint-Denis, Reunion Island (CNN)
Boeing investigators are confident that debris found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean comes from a 777 aircraft, according to a source close to the investigation.

An international team of aviation experts is trying to determine if that airplane part comes from Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

A match might help solve the mystery of what happened to that airplane, since no other 777s in the world are unaccounted for, according to the Aviation Safety Network, an online database of flight incidents.

Debris number corresponds to Boeing 777 component - CNN.com

This is notable. Of 1,313 777 airframes produced so far, only five have experienced a hull-loss incident. And of those, one was a crash-landing in London, one a fire on the ground in Cairo, and one a crash-landing in San Francisco. All aircraft parts were accounted for in those instances. There was also the shootdown of the aircraft over Ukraine in the summer of 2014, and while I believe that not all debris was accounted for in that case (due to the crash location being in a war zone), eastern Europe is a long way from the Indian Ocean.

So the only remaining unaccounted-for 777 is the one lost in the Indian Ocean.

It will be interesting to see once serial numbers are matched if this component came from the lost Malaysian plane.

[flyonpa]

Very low chance of it, But it could be a Part that was lost off a plane that was flying,

But did not crash, Just lost it Wing Spoiler, (Very unlikely, but the loss in flight would not cause the plane to crash) It would be reported to whoever flag that plane was flying over. Boeing will be able to tell from S/N that are on the parts to see what hull number it was put on to.

[atltechdude]

CNN just had an orgasm.

[Ummagumma]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

Debris number corresponds to Boeing 777 component - CNN.com

This is notable. Of 1,313 777 airframes produced so far, only five have experienced a hull-loss incident. And of those, one was a crash-landing in London, one a fire on the ground in Cairo, and one a crash-landing in San Francisco. All aircraft parts were accounted for in those instances. There was also the shootdown of the aircraft over Ukraine in the summer of 2014, and while I believe that not all debris was accounted for in that case (due to the crash location being in a war zone), eastern Europe is a long way from the Indian Ocean.

So the only remaining unaccounted-for 777 is the one lost in the Indian Ocean.

It will be interesting to see once serial numbers are matched if this component came from the lost Malaysian plane.

And even more interesting if it didn't...


(time to re-watch "Lost" ?)