The Malaysian authorities, investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, have determined that the aircraft componen...
The Malaysian authorities, investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, have determined that the aircraft component retrieved from La Réunion on 29 July, is a flaperon from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Work is still being undertaken by the Malaysian and French authorities to establish whether the flaperon originated from MH370.
The ATSB, which is leading the search for MH370, has reviewed its search calculations and priorities and is satisfied that the discovery of the flaperon at La Réunion, 16 months after the disappearance of MH370, is consistent with the current underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean.
Drift modelling by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) shows that material from the current search area could have been carried to La Réunion, as well as other locations, as part of a progressive dispersal of floating debris through the action of ocean currents and wind.
