The aircraft debris found in Reunion belongs with certainty to the flight MH370 – Le Figaro

GRAPHICS – The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that the airline piece found on Reunion Island in late July belonged “with certainty” in the Boeing Malaysia Airlines, disappeared in March 2014 with 239 . people on board

One month after the Malaysian authorities, it was the turn of French justice to affirm: the aircraft debris , found in late July on Reunion Island, belongs to the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines. “It is now possible to state with certainty that the flaperon discovered in Reunion July 29, 2015 corresponds to the flight MH 370″ confirmed Thursday that the Paris prosecutor had opened an investigation just after the accident, because four victims are French.

The examinations carried out at the laboratory of the Directorate General for Armaments of the Ministry of Defence (DGA TA), near Toulouse, helped raise “three numbers in Inside the flaperon “that led to a subcontracting firm Boeing, the company Airbus Defence and Space (ADS-SAU) in Seville (southern Spain), said prosecutors in a statement. Technical data and “hearing a technician now” allow “to formally join one of the three issues raised within the flaperon to the serial number of the flaperon MH370.”

“This is a page is turned”

The plane carrying 239 people had to liaise between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing March 8, 2014. He had disappeared from radar screens after inexplicably deflected several thousand nautical miles from its flight path. While the investigation was stalled, the discovery of a wing piece, on July 29 on a beach in La Reunion, had revived the investigations. Immediately after this discovery, in early August, the Malaysian authorities had assured that this piece came from flight MH370. As for the Paris prosecutor he was more cautious, citing “very strong evidence”

If the provenance of the airplane fragment was little doubt. – Only two other Boeing 777s have been involved in fatal accidents – for the families of victims, “it’s a page is turned” says Marie Dosé, counsel for Ghyslain Wattrelos who lost his wife and two children in the disaster

<. h2> The causes remain mysterious

To date, this is the only piece wing debris formally identified the device. After its discovery, France launched a search for ten days campaign off the island. But these operations were unsuccessful: anything likely to belong to a plane has been identified

now remains to look for clues about the causes of the accident.. Does The plane has been destroyed in flight? Did it disintegrated by hitting the surface of the ocean? There is another scenario possible? Many experts believe it is unlikely to draw the story of the disaster only from that room. For the former director of BEA John Paul Troadec, “we should not expect miracles from this analysis.” In order to draw conclusions that would require “the room is the center of the accident, the chances are quite low,” said for his part Pierre Bascary, former director of the general testing of Armaments (DGA). With these “two square meters of aircraft”, “it will be very difficult to be certain.”