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  1. The Boeing people who built the thing will know if it belongs to a triple 7 the moment they see it. I recognized the first piece of wreckage pulled from the sea when the Challenger blew up as one of the payload’s flight computers the moment I saw it because I had spent several years sitting next one in a test lab and every flight article rolled by me a few feet from my desk.

  2. Right now i am a bit (more) worried about some family that lives in the earthquake zone that got hit with a 7.9

  3. Oops, that was an error I meant to fix and forgot in my haste. Thanks! I’m away from my computer till this evening and intend to correct it then.

  4. The various speculations about the causes aren’t likely to be addressed by this piece, which would have been pretty far from anything that might have crashed the aircraft.
    We know the thing crashed, we know there are pieces.
    What we need are more relevant chunks than the trailing edge of a stabilizer.
    Might also need some honesty about the pilot, too.

  5. 5 key developments since MH370 vanished two years ago
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/03/five-key-developments-since-flight-mh370-vanished/81259820/

    the article kind of sums up from the first piece found in july, to this one…

    A “flaperon,” or part of a wing, is found on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The island is about 3,500 miles southwest of Malaysia. A month later French authorities confirm the flaperon is from MH370. An object found on the island a short time later, thought to possibly be part of a door on the plane, turns out to be a ladder with no connection to the missing jet. An intensive search of the area finds no additional pieces of the plane.

  6. Found “on a sandbank on the eastern shore of the mainland in the Mozambique Channel, which separates Madagascar from the east African coast.”
    Let’s do some geography here.
    The “eastern shore of the mainland” would be Mozambique itself.
    Reunion Island, where the other piece was found,
    is about 200 miles EAST of Madagascar.
    The mainland is about 250 miles WEST of Madagascar.
    Madagascar is 1000 miles North-South. About 200 miles East-West.
    (Plus or minus for these distances)
    So Reunion Island is about 650 miles from Mozambique as the crow flies.

    The finding of these two fragments, vastly separated from one another, means nothing in the search for the plane. That search is a waste of time and money. The plane is proven dead, end of story.

  7. Frog:

    However, they are indeed relatively near each other compared to the vast vast Indian Ocean. They of course point to the fact that the plane “is proven dead.” This is just further proof of it, but we pretty much already knew it.

    However, it’s not “end of story” for those who lost their loved ones. Nor for Malaysia. Nor for anyone who cares about aviation accidents and getting to the bottom of them, nor for anyone who cares about the possibility of sabotage and/or terrorism (particular the possibility of a terrorist pilot). If these finds and more could point to the location of the wreckage of the plane (which is probably somewhere on the bottom of the ocean), much might be discovered to answer the question of what happened to this plane, which remains one of the biggest mysteries—if not THE biggest—in aviation history.

    I’m surprised at your lack of curiosity.

  8. I’m just a nobody, and have not kept up much with search of the Malaysian jet. I just seen on my local news that another piece of the (possible) jet had been found, and couple questions come to mind…..first off , of the news clips I have seen of (photos) wreckage from this jet , every piece I have seen seems to have the words “no step” painted on. I’m very certain that the 777 truly has the words”no step” painted on alot of areas on it, but I ask what are the chances that a few (relatively) small pieces that have been discovered would All have these words painted on them.and secondly what are the astronomical odds that a man that blogs, YouTubes,has spoken to family members of the lost passengers ,ect. about said plane would actually be the one of a few people in the entire continent of Africa to find a “piece of said 777” and it too have the words “no step” painted clearly on it….and Has zero barnacles,ect on it. Just my (very over stated) thought on the matter.

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