MH370 Mystery Deepens As Suitcase Found Near Possible Wing

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We reported yesterday that a piece of plane debris thought to possibly be from Malaysia Airline’s MH370 flight that went missing last year. Today, a battered suitcase has been found along with the debris on France’s Reunion Island, located off the coast of Africa.

MH370 – Passenger Suitcase Found?

According to KSN.com:

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A report from linfo.re, a French local news outlet on Reunion Island, said a municipal employee found a suitcase along the coastline of St. Andrew “at exactly the same place as the aircraft debris found yesterday.”

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Authorities have yet to publicly comment on the latest finding.

Picture of the suitcase found this morning at Saint-André ! (credit : @Linfore) #ReunionIsland pic.twitter.com/ZhrS3kQNF2

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A sea-crusted wing part found on the island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation’s most perplexing and expensive mysteries.

Air safety investigators — one of them a Boeing investigator — have identified the component found on the French island of Reunion as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, the U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing.

“It’s the first real evidence that there is a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found,” said Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss, whose country is leading the search for the plane in a remote patch of ocean far off Australia’s west coast. “It’s too early to make that judgment, but clearly we are treating this as a major lead.”

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Flight 370 had been traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but investigators believe based on satellite data that the plane turned south into the Indian Ocean after vanishing from radar. If the wing part is from the Malaysia plane, it would bolster that theory and put to rest others that it traveled north, or landed somewhere after being hijacked.

The wing piece is about 2 meters (6 feet) long. Investigators have found a number on the part, but it is not a serial or registration number, Truss said. It could be a maintenance number, which may help investigators figure out what plane it belongs to, he said.