Since last year, Australian officials who are leading the search effort have operated on the theory that the plane flew on autopilot for hours before running out of fuel and crashing into the ocean. Malaysian officials, who are leading the investigation into the plane's disappearance, have said the plane's movements were consistent with deliberate actions by someone on the plane, suggesting someone in the cockpit intentionally flew the aircraft off-course. The Reunion Island debris would be consistent with the working theory that the jet went down in the Indian Ocean and the debris travelled with the ocean current which moves counter-clockwise. It won't fully solve the mystery of why the plane disappeared, nor will it help pinpoint where the plane crashed.Ī six-week air and sea search covering 4.6 million square kilometers (1.8 million square miles) of the southern Indian Ocean surface early last year failed to find any trace of the jet. No one is certain why the plane deviated so far from its planned route.Īnalysts have said a close look at the wing part could indicate what kind of stress the plane was under as it made impact. Highly technical efforts to extrapolate the jet's final hours before it would have run out of fuel gave force to the theory that it went down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. "I will have to tell him tomorrow before he goes to school." "My son doesn't know yet that his dad is really gone, that he won't be back," she said, in tears.
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She said she watched the announcement on TV with one of her daughters, while her youngest child, a 15-year-old son, was asleep. Gomes said she hopes to get her husband's body back so that the family can give him a proper burial and say goodbye. We don't know what happened and where the plane went down. "It brings some sort of closure but not a complete closure. They still need to find the black box to get the truth out," she said. We urge them to continue searching until they find the plane and bring it back," she said. "Now that they have confirmed it as MH370, I know my husband is no longer of this world but they just can't leave it with this one flaperon. Jacquita Gomes, the wife of crew member Patrick Gomes, said she was informed by Malaysia Airlines about the news half an hour before Najib's announcement. It is also not known why the plane turned back from its original flight path and headed in an opposite direction before turning left and flying south over the Indian Ocean for hours. In addition to confirming the provenance of the 777 flap, analysts say the investigators will examine the metal with high-powered microscopes to gain insight into what caused the plane to go down. "The experts are conducting their work as fast as they can in order to give complete and reliable information as quickly as possible." "The very strong conjectures are to be confirmed by complimentary analysis that will begin tomorrow morning," Mackowiak said. Deputy French Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak didn't outright confirm that the debris belonged to flight MH370 but said there were strong indications that it was the case. We expect and hope that there would be more objects to be found which would be able to help resolve this mystery."Īt a press conference in Paris, authorities were much more cautious than the Malaysian prime minister. The statement said this "is indeed a major breakthrough for us in resolving the disappearance of MH370. "Family members of passengers and crew have already been informed and we extend our deepest sympathies to those affected," it said. In a statement, Malaysia Airlines said the part of the plane's wing, known as a "flaperon," which was found on Reunion Island on July 29 had been confirmed to be of Flight 370. Intact and encrusted with barnacles, the metal piece was sent to France for scrutiny by the French civil aviation investigation department known by its acronym BEA, and members from its Malaysian and Australian counterparts. They have our deepest sympathy and prayers," he said. It is my hope that this confirmation, however tragic and painful, will at least bring certainty to the families and loved ones of the 239 people onboard MH370. "The burden and uncertainty faced by the families during this time has been unspeakable. "We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Najib said.
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