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Today in the MSM and the Aviation press, there is a developing story on another suspected B777 piece of debris discovered on the coast of Mozambique.

First courtesy AvWeb:

Possible MH370 Part Found 

By AVweb staff | March 2, 2016

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An object that could be a piece of a Boeing 777 has been found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, between Africa and Madagascar, and is being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, sources told NBC News today. "The object has the words "NO STEP" on it and could be from the plane's horizontal stabilizer — the wing-like parts attached to the tail, sources say," according to NBC News.

The object was discovered by an American who has been blogging about the search for MH370, which disappeared nearly two years ago. The find has not yet been confirmed or verified by authorities, but investigators have seen photographs of the latest object and sources told NBC there is a good chance it comes from a Boeing 777.

And from Ben Sandilands, courtesy of PT on Crikey this am:

Remote chance that MH370 part has been found in Mozambique

Ben Sandilands | Mar 03, 2016 3:42AM |

The Mozambique Channel as shown by the NBC

Updated  The possibility that another part of missing flight MH370 has been found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel is under scrutiny, but positive identification is yet to be made.


The NBC News report about the potential discovery doesn’t name the private investigator who found what superficially looks like part of the horizontal stabiliser of the Malayasia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER .

His identity is known to Plane Talking but he had requested through other parties that it not be given out pending further investigation of the find.

However since then an online article on the Society site in French revealed his identity as Blaine Gibson and published photos of his find. Gibson is recognised as a serious and methodical researcher into the disappearance of MH370 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people onboard.

The immediate unresolved issues with the object recovered is that it shows no signs of having been immersed in the sea for any length of time and displays a honeycombed aluminium and composite structure that needs to be confirmed as having been used in that part of the Boeing 777 model in question.

However it does have the words NO STEP on part of the structure, which is consistent with sensitive control surfaces on airliners in general. As shown in the linked NBC report, the horizontal stabilisers on a low wing jet like the 777 are the short or stubby fin like wings at the base of the vertical stabiliser or tail of the jet.

The photos of the piece of debris have been shown to the ATSB and Malaysian authorities and Boeing, none of whom have made any official comment at this stage.

The only other confirmed MH370 debris is that of a flaperon from the main wing of the missing 777 which was recovered from the shores of La Reunion island in July last year.
The relationship between La Reunion and south eastern Africa is shown on the diagram (top of page) that the NBC broadcast in its report.

This part of the Indian Ocean has been identified in some studies as a possible destination for debris from MH370 which is generally believed to have come down in the southern Indian Ocean, SW of Perth after it ran out of fuel about seven and a half hours after takeoff.

The last satellite relayed ping from a maintenance and engine performance computer on MH370 occurred some seven hours 38 minutes after takeoff, and implied according to search strategists advising the ATSB managed sea floor search, that the jet was out of control and possibly inverted before impact.

At the end of the French article Mr Gibson says, in colloquial terms “I’m not affirming any view. I don’t believe in any conspiracy theories. I think, as we have to, that the plane will be found one day. Until then I say we have to seek the evidence.”

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