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Ben & Marnie on latest debris find -

PT yesterday:

Looks like the first internal fragment of MH370 has been found on Mauritius

Ben Sandilands | Apr 02, 2016 1:12PM |


The relevant part of L’express Mauritius front page

Something that looks very much like an internal part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found on a beach in Mauritius.

The brief report of the discovery in French can be found here.

It was found by Jean Dominique and Suzy Vitry on Wednesday, when Ms Vitry instinctively felt it was from a plane, and her husband a retired police officer immediately notified the local police.

The blurry photo on L’express Mauritius appears to show some marine fouling, possibly barnacles.

However the most striking aspect of the find was tweeted by Don Thompson, who has played a major role in the independent auditing of the search for MH370, with a comparison photo of the debris and a part of the bulkhead of a 777-200ER cabin similar to that flown by the Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing on 8 March 2014, when it vanished with 239 people onboard while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

If Mr Thompson is right, this is the first internal piece of wreckage retrieved from MH370. Check out his tweet and comparison photo here.

(And in case you were wondering, L’express published on 31 March, not 1 April.)

&..Marnie via news.com.au yesterday:

Suspected fragment of MH370 business class cabin found on Rodrigues Island, east of Africa

April 2, 20168:24pm

Major find: This piece of suspected aircraft wreckage found on Rodrigues Island is believed to have come from the business class cabin of MH370. If proven it will be the first internal part found.

Marnie O'Neill [email=O’Neillnews.com.au@marnieoneill7] news.com.au [/email] [email=O’Neillnews.com.au@marnieoneill7]@marnieoneill7[/email]

A FRAGMENT believed to have come from inside the cabin of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been found on an island in Mauritius, east of Africa.
MH370 Independent Group expert Don Thompson saw photographs of the part and said it appeared to match the bulkhead of an MAS Boeing 777 business class cabin.

The decorative finish on the piece, however, was not limited to that section of a B777 and could also have come from economy class, Mr Thompson told news.com.au.

Fellow IG member Mike Exner agreed with the assessment and the group this morning passed on the information to the Australian Tranport Safety Bureau (ATSB) who is understood to be excited by the find.

The object, if proven to have come from the missing plane, is hugely significant because it is the first possible internal fragment to have been found. The piece is also likely to shed more light on the manner in which the aircraft entered the water.


The bulkhead of the business class cabin of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 the Rodrigues part is suspected to have come from.


The suspected fragment of a bulkhead (see above photo for where it corresponds on a plane)

A couple holidaying on Rodrigues Island (a small volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, east of Mauritius) found the wreckage as they were walking along the beach at Var-Brûlé between Mourouk and Gravel, on Thursday.

Jean Dominique and Suzy Vitry, who live on nearby La Reunion where a flaperon confirmed to have come from the plane was found last July, immediately suspected they had found another piece of MH370, reports Reunion website Clicanoo.

They took the piece back to their hotel, the Mourouk Ebony, and gave it to management for safekeeping while a report was made to the River Coco Police Station.

It is not clear how big the fragment is but Clicanoo quoted a senior hotel staff member as having described it as “tens of centimetres”. A small cluster of barnacles are visible on the piece.

Photographs of the fragment have been posted to the hotel’s Facebook page.
The ATSB recently confirmed that two pieces of debris found in Mozambique last month, including Blaine Gibson’s “NO STEP” part and the outboard wing flap found by South African teenager Liam Lotter, were “highly likely” to have come from MH370.

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The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanished on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.


Another fragment, dubbed the “Rolls Royce piece”, found in South Africa’s Western Cape province, is thought to have come from the inlet cowling of the aircraft’s engine.


The “Rolls Royce” piece.Source:Twitter


American adventurer and MH370 sleuth Blaine Gibson with his ‘NO STEP’ piece, which formed part of the horizontal stabiliser of a Boeing 777. Picture: Blaine A GibsonSource:Supplied


South African teenager Liam Lotter’s piece, which he found while holidaying with family in MozambiqueSource:AFP