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1) It is almost certainly from the missing Malaysian plane. Few 777s have been retired (and it's hard to see how a piece of a retired one would end up awash in the Indian Ocean) and only two hull-loss incidents have resulted in some parts being unrecovered - the missing plane, and the one shot down over Ukraine (and it's hardly likely that a piece of the latter ended up in the Indian Ocean).
2) This isn't the first piece to wash up in the Indian Ocean, so this really doesn't change much that was already known - that the aircraft almost certainly crashed in the sea.
3) Stolen? Outside of a bad plot for an equally bad movie, the odds of that being the fate of the aircraft were always vanishingly small.
Sure, but they still have to determine that scientifically and officially.
The stolen plane theory was the primary theory in the beginning, when they discovered there was a Uighur passenger on board with a forged passport, and that was reinforced when the map with the sattellite "pings" showed a trajectory to the northwest leading to Central Asia was published. The theory didn't last too long, but it was then replaced with a theory about flying the plane to Pakistan. It was only later that the discussion and search focussed on a southern trajectory exclusively.
1) It is almost certainly from the missing Malaysian plane. Few 777s have been retired (and it's hard to see how a piece of a retired one would end up awash in the Indian Ocean) and only two hull-loss incidents have resulted in some parts being unrecovered - the missing plane, and the one shot down over Ukraine (and it's hardly likely that a piece of the latter ended up in the Indian Ocean).
I'm not so sure we can say that yet. Aircraft are not the only vessels with the words "No Step" on them. The lack of marine life and the general condition of the part are not consistent with the flaperon found.
What really sticks out to me is that the part was found immediately before the search is suspended by someone who "happens" to be an interested party who "happened" to be in Mozambique when the part "happened" to wash ashore.
Perhaps Boeing will confirm the part is indeed from a 777 (I assume no S/N on this fragment) but they have been awfully quiet.
The silence from the Philippines is deafening. I guess that plane some kid found in the jungle didn't pan out as a story. Now we have more debris being found around the southwestern edge of the Indian ocean. I guess that clinches the ocean-crash theory. I hope this gives the families some closure.
It still doesn't explain why the pilot turned around upon reaching Vietnamese airspace, why the flight didn't proceed as scheduled.
The silence from the Philippines is deafening. I guess that plane some kid found in the jungle didn't pan out as a story. Now we have more debris being found around the southwestern edge of the Indian ocean. I guess that clinches the ocean-crash theory. I hope this gives the families some closure.
The part hasn't been confirmed as being from this plane. Nor has the part allegedly found three weeks ago. Why not? They have had plenty of time to validate it.
Amazing it still hasn't been found. You would think they could backtrack the currents to narrow down the location. The investigation seems to have been bungled from the very beginning.
PAGING CNN! -- "MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight," by Jeff Wise in NYMag.com: "New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances. The revelation, which Malaysia withheld from a lengthy public report on the investigation, is the strongest evidence yet that Zaharie made off with the plane in a premeditated act of mass murder-suicide." MH370 Pilot Flew Suicide Route on Home Simulator -- NYMag
I've had DM's asking if what I posted immediately above is legit. Short answer, I don't know, but I did a Google search and found nothing to disqualify it.
I did find a piece saying the search was being suspended/discontinued. I also saw a similar piece about the search on the BBC within the last 48 hours, that also had an interview with the pilot's sister, who disputed the computer claim, or something like that.
What I take from that now, is that rumors must have been circulating in Malaysia about a govt. coverup.
US DoJ just this week targeted $1B in funds connected to friends of the Malayisian PM, so it's not hard to envisage a coverup, just for cultural reasons alone.
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I hope this gives the families some closure.
