ALEX DAVIES GEAR DATE OF PUBLICATION: 09.03.15.09.03.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 1:19 PM.1:19 PM
THE FRENCH MINISTRY of Justice has now officially, absolutely, definitely, postively confirmed that the piece of plane debris that washed up on the island of Réunion in late July belonged to MH370, the jetliner that disappeared in March 2014 with 237 people onboard.
It is “possible to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on the Reunion Island on July 29 2015 corresponds to the one on MH370,” the French Ministry of Justice said in a statement, according to Reuters. Réunion is a French overseas department, so the debris was sent to a lab in France. There, investigators used an endoscope to look inside the part, and found serial numbers matching the missing plane.
This is a more official confirmation than the Malaysian prime minister’s August 5 statement that “an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.”
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/ok-chunk-plane-debris-now-officially-mh370/
