Wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 Washes Up On Reunion Island, 4500 Miles From Where Expected to be Found

One part of the mystery is now over, but the rest of it remains.

American investigators tell The New York Times that a part of an airplane found washed up on a beach on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion is from a Boeing 777. "A person familiar with the matter" tells Reuters the part was almost certainly from a 777.

This can only be MH370....

The piece of debris is part of a wing and probably a control surface from that wing. Control surfaces are among the most likely part of airplane wreckage to survive for a long while as flotsam...

Why is it so far from where the experts involved in the search had predicted the wreckage would show up? The Australian authorities leading the search for Flight 370 said last fall that they were working on a drift model to accurately plot where wreckage might first show up. Their prediction: the southern coast of Sumatra--4,500 miles away from Reunion.

Don "Black Hole" Lemon Hardest Hit

There's more there, about the possible reasons why Computer Modeling failed to predict its drift.

posted by Ace at 01:14 PM

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