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Herr Ventus, not sure of the point of your link? That's an old news.

Gobbles

I can see a couple of reasons for ventus re-hashing that ABC World Today news piece.

First there is Joe Hattley's no bullshit, no weasel worded statement, on the actions that he'd already taken (forwarding flaperon phots to Boeing). Also the investigatory process that he believed would now be followed by the French BEA to establish the provenance of the flaperon.

RACHAEL BROWN: The French safety agency, BEA, (Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses) has sent photos to its counterpart, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, who's been leading the search in the southern Indian Ocean.


The bureau's Joe Hattley says he's forwarded the photos to Boeing.

JOE HATTLEY: There are two different numbers that we would be looking for. One is a part number that's common to all the parts that are manufactured the same.

And then it may or may not have a serial number. If we can get a serial number off it, then we may be able to match it up to a specific aircraft.

RACHAEL BROWN: How long could this take?

JOE HATTLEY: I'm sort of thinking it's going to take several days at this stage because we will need to work with our counterparts in France to get the component suitably examined by technical specialists

Agree with "K", enough of the bollocks & bring back Joe...

Next Ginger Beer Peter M, states what many MH370 followers already strongly suspect:
  

RACHAEL BROWN: Mr Marosszeky still thinks certain authorities might be withholding vital information


PETER MAROSSZEKY: I'm inclined to think that there is, there could be a country that is aware of where that aircraft might have gone down, but they're very disinclined to reveal it for security reasons so as not to reveal the accuracy of their satellite imaging systems, or in fact, basically end up in a legal issue about surveillance over foreign territories.

  
But for mine the biggest revelation from that World Today report was in the brief exchange between CSIRO Oceanographer David Griffin and reporter Rachael Brown:

RACHAEL BROWN: The Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister, Warren Truss, has released a statement saying, "in the event the debris is identified as being part of MH370, it would be consistent with other analysis and modelling that the resting place of the aircraft is in the southern Indian Ocean".


The CSIRO agrees, referring to its modelling of currents, winds and waves.

CSIRO oceanographer David Griffin explains how the wing debris could've travelled from this predicted splash point off to Reunion Island.

DAVID GRIFFIN: So something landing off West Australia, sort of, you know, when you look at the whole Indian Ocean, that's our half of the Indian, things would just generally move sort of first northwards. There's a sort of a seasonal things came a bit towards Australia initially and then, as the seasons change, we think that things then moved into the central Indian and then, with the relentless of south-east trades, anything poking up above the sea surface would then keep going to the west along the equator and Reunion Island is very close to the equator.

RACHAEL BROWN: Mr Griffin was part of the MH370 drift model taskforce until it finished its work in May last year. He says any find, now 16 months on, will be welcome.

 
The part in bold would seem to reveal that the findings & modelling for possible debris drift has been publicly withheld since May last year up until two days ago...

I'm totally with Paul Howard on his response to an ATSB tweet today: 

ATSB ‏@atsbinfo 12h12 hours ago

#MH370: New drift modelling video by @CSIROnews https://youtu.be/PZ7yQ1u2rqw  via @YouTube

Paul Howard‏@Paul_playwright 9h9 hours ago
@atsbinfo @PAIN_NET1 @CSIROnews And why do we only see this now ? What happened to Sumatra ? Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells.

 
---Love it!

MTF..P2