MH370: experts began analyzing and going to speak wing fragment – TF1

The mystery of the flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines is it about to be solved? Experts and investigators began Wednesday afternoon at Toulouse analysis of the wing fragment Air found in Reunion to to identify its origin and its likely membership of flight MH370 from Malaysia Airlines, mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March 2014.

The expertise began at 15 hours, according to a judicial source. Shortly before, twenty people including experts from the French investigation and analysis Bureau (BEA) and many of their Malaysian counterparts had arrived at the site of the military laboratory Balma, near Toulouse, where the tests are conducted.

The expertise of the room discovered on a beach in the Reunion last Wednesday, which should “take at least several days” will unfold in three stages.

The debris he comes well of a Boeing 777?

It will first confirm that the flaperon (of aircraft wing component) comes well of a Boeing 777 aircraft type of linking Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur to Beijing March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board. For this, the investigators will overlap their observations with the serial number, the plans required the manufacturer, materials or manufacturing processes. Since the launch of the model in 1995, only two other Boeing 777 were involved in fatal accidents, both occurring away from the Indian Ocean: the Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Seoul to San Francisco, which had hit a sea wall in Landing July 6, 2013, killing three Chinese adolescents and that of Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and shot in flight in eastern Ukraine July 17, 2014 with 298 people on board.

he belongs to the wing fragment MH370 flight?

This will at a later stage whether the piece comes right from flight MH370. The particular analysis of traces of paint and any registrations should inform the experts on this point. “It was almost certain that this is the MH370 flight search but legal evidence,” the specialist aviation safety, Xavier Tytelman. “Each airline had painted her in some way and should be able to identify that it is a painting from Malaysia Airlines,” says his side Jean-Paul Troadec, former director of BEA.

Why the plane he crashed into the sea?

In a third phase, experts will look for clues on the origin of the accident. This will be whether the aircraft was destroyed in flight or disintegrated by hitting the surface of the ocean.

The metal structure of the object will also be inspected “especially with a scanning electron microscope that can magnify up to 100,000 times,” notes Pierre Bascary, former director of the tests Directorate General of Armaments (DGA). “Nothing says, in any case, given the modest size of the room (about 2 square meters) at the end of this expertise, we will know what happened,” the source close to the dossier.

The study of crustaceans who hung on the flap and on the remains of a suitcase found on the same beach as the wing piece should her little be used for identification of the flight. According to some researchers, the species and the age of these crustaceans, however, could help determine how long the plane part stayed in the water, the temperature of the water, where she walked. Which deliver indices on an area where the boost potential other debris research.

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