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Speaking of dross, guess who poked their stuffed noggin up yesterday??- Yep our resident MH370 super sleuth Muppet is back, pandering to the MSM...
   

Wing panel gives up little data on missing MH370  

• by: STEVE CREEDY
  
• From: The Australian
  
• September 05, 2015 12:00AM
  

Aviation Editor
Sydney

Australia’s top safety investigator has cautioned that a “flaperon” movable wing panel from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may yield only limited information, despite confirmation from French authorities yesterday that it is from the missing Boeing 777.  

Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief Martin Dolan said the bureau would continue to use an analysis of satellite communication with the plane as the main basis of determining the search area, and it remained confident it was looking in the right place.

The plane disappeared in March last year while flying between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing with 239 people on board, including six Australians.

The bureau used analysis of communications between the B777 and a geostationary satellite to determine an area off the coast of Western Australia in which it most likely crashed.

A long search had failed to find any sign of the aircraft until the flaperon was discovered on ­Reunion Island, a French territory east of Madagascar, more than a month ago.
“It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion Island on July 29 came from Flight MH370,” Paris prosecutors said yesterday.

Mr Dolan said it was still uncertain how much other information the flaperon would yield.
It was not possible to track the flaperon’s journey to Reunion with any level of confidence to confirm or change the search area.

The bureau has been working with the CSIRO to look at potential drift patterns, and remains unconvinced by claims by German oceanographers that it should be looking in a region close to Java.

“We are still looking at all the analysis of the satellite data and we’re still very confident in that analysis,’’ Mr Dolan said.

He said damage to the flaperon did not give any indication about the force of the impact, despite some views being expressed on the subject, but the ATSB would work with the French experts to see if any more could be gleaned from the flaperon.

Two ships continue to investigate an expanded 120,000sq km search area but have had to scale back operations because of the rough winter weather.

"..Australia’s top safety investigator..." - "Aunty Pru I have much need of a bucket!"...    

MTF maybe??