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MH370: Fragment Is From Missing Flight
hcs_$reboot writes: The plane part (the flaperon) that was found on a beach in the Indian Ocean on Réunion island was determined to be part of MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago. Some experts have postulated that the damage suggests the flaperon may have been deployed when the plane hit the water, meaning that someone in the cockpit was consciously manipulating the controls. The Malaysian Prime Minister said at a press conference "We now have physical evidence that ... Flight MH370 tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.".
If you RTFA, there's a link to another article that states their reasons.
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
Based on preliminary observations, Former NTSB Aviation Safety Director Tom Haueter says the part –- identified by Malaysia Airlines as a “flaperon,” a wing component used for balance –- appears to have a pristine leading edge. The rear section, called the trailing edge, appears to be missing.
“To me, it indicates that it was not a high speed, high angle impact, because if that had happened, the leading edge would be crushed,” Haueter, an ABC News contributor, said. “What I don’t see is a severe nose down impact.”
The condition of the debris suggests the flaps were down at the time of the crash, possibly indicating that “somebody's controlling the aircraft,” when it hit the water, said Haueter.
“The airplane wouldn’t have done that on its own,” he added. But “you’re trying to land or ditch the airplane – you’d have the flaps folded down.”
Flight numbers are reused, so perhaps it was from a different MH370 flight that lost a wing fragment yet was not missing. Stuff like that probably happens all the time.
No, it doesn't. But anyway...
The flaperon did not have "MH370" written on it. It was traced to the actual plane that disappeared on the MH370 route on that day.
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You do understand that ocean currents are not straight lines, right? For chrissake it's taken years for the Tohoku tsunami's wreckage to make it the Pacific Northwest.
My favorite example is the shipping container full of rubber ducks that an oceanographer tracked for 15 years! We may be finding pieces for decades.
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The heat from the fire is insufficient to make the molten piles of metal found. It's physically impossible. Idiots would take that as "proof" the fire was man-made. Non-idiots would mention that the potential energy stored by the building being tall would have had to be dissipated in some way, or it would have fallen to the core of the earth. Turns out the PE of the building was converted to KE as it fell, and that KE was converted to heat with the sudden stop at the end. It was the act of the falling of the building that melted the puddles of metal, not the fire. Human brains don't work well at extremes. We interpolate well, but extrapolate poorly. One of the tallest buildings on the planet falling is outside "common sense". So anyone who appeals to it as a reason for why or how has proven (to me) that they are wrong.
https://www.google.co.nz/searc... And as I mentioned elsewhere, a warm day can warp and bend steel to the point it "collapses" so "melt" is not required for structural failure. Anyone who claims that is lying.
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Reports of which were highly exaggerated, and the reality of which has been explained many times by people who don't have a need to cartoon-quality conspiracy theories in order to distract them from their boring existence.
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> The twin towers was the first case when the design explicitly considered impact from the largest jet airliner of the time (DC9) fully loaded and the subsequent fire
So, what you're saying is they didn't consider the impact from an aircraft 8 feet taller, 67 feet wider, 55 feet longer, three hundred thousand pounds heavier and carrying sixty thousand gallons more fuel?