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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MH370
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/preliminaryreport.pdf
ACTION TAKEN
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/actions.pdf
CARGO MANIFESTO
http://www.straitstimes.com/sites/straitstimes.com/files/20140501/MH370%20-%20Cargo%20Manifest%20and%20Airway%20Bill_0.pdf
MH370 RAW DATA
http://www.dca.gov.my/mainpage.html
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
SEAT NUMBERS BY CITIZENS ON PLANE & ROUTE OF PLANE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/05/day-55-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
LATEST MH370 NEWS 2015
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/after-516-days-missing-malaysian-prime.html (DAY-516)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/just-waiting-for-boeing-777-comfirmation.html (DAY-514)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/malaysia-says-wing-part-is-boeing-777.html (DAY-513)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/2nd-number-identified-from-boeing-777.html (DAY-512)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/possible-suite-case-found-from-flight.html (DAY-511)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/debris-numbers-on-wing-parcial.html (DAY-510)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/boeing-thinks-plane-part-found-on.html (DAY-510)
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/10/next-phase-of-hunting-for-mh370-starts.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/isis-wants-to-kill-pope-mh370-may-have_30.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/nearly-5-months-later-mh370-will-be.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-95-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-94-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-91-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 67 TO 91 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-91-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 47 TO 66 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/05/day-66-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 33 TO 46 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
BOEING
http://www.boeing.com/
MH370 FLIGHT HISTORY
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370
http://www.tomnod.com/campaign/mh370_indian_ocean/map/1fex13y4b
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
MH17 MANAFESTO
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/malaysia-airlines/mas/PDF/MH17/MH17%20PAX%20AND%20CREW%20MANIFEST%20200714.pdf
AIRASIA FLIGHT QZ8501 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_14.html
IDENTIFICATION PAGE OF THE DEAD FROM FLIGHT QZ 8501-A320-200
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/identification-page-of-passengers-and.html
FLIGHTAWARE FOR QZ 8501 MISSING PLANE
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWQ8501/history/20141228/2220Z/WARR/WSSS
AIR BUS - A320-200
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Asiana/Asiana_Airbus_A320-200.php
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/cabin-layout/
AIRASIA CEO TONY FERNANDES
http://www.ndtv.com/topic/tony-fernandes/news/page-3
A PICTURE OF THE MISSING MH370 FOR 16 MONTHS PLUS.AND NOW MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND A PIECE OF-pic-theregister.co.uk
UPDATE-AUGUST 07,2015-12:00AM
Frustrated Flight 370 families: 'We need definite answers'-Associated Press By IAN MADER-aug 6,15-yahoonews
BEIJING (AP) — Families aching for closure after their relatives disappeared aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last year vented deep frustration Thursday at differing statements from Malaysia and France over whether the finding of a plane part had been confirmed."Why the hell do you have one confirm and one not?" asked Sara Weeks of Christchurch, New Zealand. Her brother, Paul Weeks, was on the plane that disappeared March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing."Why not wait and get everybody on the same page so the families don't need to go through this turmoil?" she said.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced early Thursday that a plane wing section found on the French island of Reunion was "conclusively confirmed" to be from Flight 370, saying he hoped the news would end "unspeakable" uncertainty. The announcement was in line with the Malaysian conclusion that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people aboard.But French officials with custody of the wing part said only that there were strong indications the barnacle-encrusted part — known as a "flaperon" — was from the flight and that they would work further to try to confirm the finding."After 17 months, we need definite answers," Weeks said. "We need to progress, get answers, move toward further answers, and get some closure along the line."About two-thirds of the passengers were from China, and in Beijing, Xu Jinghong said she could not understand why Malaysian and French authorities did not make their statements together."I am very angry — so angry that my hands and feet are cold," Xu, 41, said in an interview early Thursday outside her downtown home. "The announcement was made without experts from France present. I don't understand how the procedure can be like this."The statement by Najib would appear to give the first strong physical evidence of a crash, which could put to rest several theories that many relatives have refused to rule out, including that the plane and its passengers were hijacked and intact in some still-unknown location.Irene Burrows, the 85-year-old mother of missing Australian passenger Rod Burrows, who was lost with his wife, Mary, said last year that she didn't expect the mystery to be solved in her lifetime. She said at the time: "All I just want is a bit of the plane. It's all I want to know — where they are."For her, Thursday's confirmation was a simple wish come true."We're quite pleased that it's been found," she said from her home in Biloela in northeastern Australia.However, for many relatives, any potential certainty was diluted by the word from Paris, where Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak said the "very strong conjectures" that the wing part was from the missing Boeing 777 still needed to be "confirmed by complementary analysis" that would begin later Thursday.It was unclear whether the mix-up was a result of miscommunication between the two countries, differing notions of the burden of proof, or whether Malaysian officials were overeager to send out some definitive signal for relatives of the missing.In any case, a full confirmation of the wing part wasn't likely to bring total closure for relatives, with the rest of the plane and the bodies still missing.Jiang Hui, whose mother was on board, said there was still a lack of evidence to prove that the plane crashed as was announced by Malaysian officials last year. At the time, they cited thorough analysis of the limited satellite data available for the flight. Major questions remain, including why the plane went off course."The finding of debris does not mean the finding of our next of kin," said Jiang, 41.About a dozen Chinese relatives of passengers gathered Thursday at Malaysia Airlines offices in Beijing, holding signs, including one saying, "Malaysia hides the truth." After several hours, the group was invited into a closed-door talk with airline officials. They later went to Boeing offices but weren't allowed in.While confirming ocean-borne debris from the plane is an important threshold for many relatives, it will be difficult for some to fully come to terms with the disaster without seeing the body of their loved one, said Nancy Smyth, a University of Buffalo sociologist focusing on psychological trauma.The finding of the wing piece "is certainly a step toward closure," Smyth said, adding: "It is important not to think of closure as a check box, but more of a journey and process for people with a lot of layers.""So much of our grieving process involves physicality, such as seeing the body, and that's not present here, which makes it very difficult for the families to gain closure," she said.Melanie Antonio, whose husband was a Flight 370 flight attendant, said she wasn't sure how to feel."I'm numb, I'm not sad," she said in Kuala Lumpur. "It's just a flaperon, it doesn't prove anything. We still need the wreckage to prove. I just want anything that can tell me my hubby is gone."Jacquita Gomes, also the wife of a flight attendant, echoed that sentiment. "If it's not too much to ask, I still want the remains of my husband."___Associated Press writer Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, video journalists Zhang Weiqun and Aritz Parra in Beijing, writer Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, and photographer Joshua Paul in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to this report.
Malaysia says matches prove wing part is from missing flight MH370-Reuters By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah-aug 6,15-yahoonews
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Thursday paint color and maintenance-record matches proved that a piece of wing found on the shore of an Indian Ocean island was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without trace last year.Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said investigators on the French island of Reunion had collected more aircraft debris, including a plane window and aluminum foil, but there was no confirmation they also belonged to the missing plane.With the first trace of the plane confirmed, Malaysia has asked the governments of neighboring Mauritius and Madagascar to help widen the search area, he told reporters.Earlier, Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed that the piece of debris was from the Boeing 777 airliner that was bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers and crew on board when it went missing."Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370," Najib said in a televised address.The airline described the find as "a major breakthrough".The first piece of direct evidence that the plane crashed in the sea closed a chapter in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.But exactly what happened remains unknown and Najib's announcement did not appear to represent any kind of resolution for the families of those on board, most of whom were Chinese.The fragment of wing known as a flaperon was flown to mainland France after being found last week covered in barnacles on a Reunion beach.Despite the Malaysian confirmation, prosecutors in France stopped short of declaring they were certain, saying only that there was a "very strong presumption".Deputy Paris Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak said this was based on technical data supplied by both the manufacturer and airline but gave no indication that experts had discovered a serial number or unique markings that would put the link beyond doubt.Representatives of manufacturer Boeing confirmed that the flaperon came from a 777 jet, he said, and Malaysia Airlines provided documentation of the missing aircraft.Mackowiak told reporters more analysis would be carried out on Thursday, and a fragment of luggage also found in Reunion would be examined by French police."We appreciate the French team and their support and respect their decision to continue with the verification," Liow said, adding that Malaysian experts were convinced the flaperon was from MH370 because a seal on the part matched a maintenance record and the paint was the same color.-SEARCH FOR CLUES-A group of families from China said French investigators and Boeing must also say definitively the wing piece was from the plane."We are not living in denial ... but we owe it to our loved ones not to declare them lost without 100 percent certainty!" the families said on their microblog.China's foreign ministry urged Malaysia to keep investigating and to "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests" of relatives.Investigators looking at the wing flap at an aeronautical facility in the French city of Toulouse are likely to start by putting slices of metal under a high-powered microscope, to see clues in its crystal structure about how it deformed on impact, said Hans Weber, president of TECOP International, Inc., an aerospace technology consulting firm.They would probably then "do a full physical examination, using ultrasonic analysis before they open it up to see if there's any internal damage", Weber said."That might take quite a while. A month or months."John Goglia, a former board member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, told Reuters much could be learned from examining the metal and how the brackets that held the flaperon in place had broken.However, other experts cautioned that the cause of the disaster may remain beyond the reach of investigators until other debris or data and cockpit voice recorders are recovered."Debris such as the flaperon can only increase our understanding of the last seconds of the flight," said Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor at industry publication Flightglobal.Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, and is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) east of Reunion.Investigators believe that someone may have deliberately switched off the aircraft's transponder, diverted it off course and deliberately crashed into the sea.An initial search of a 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) patch of sea floor has been extended to another 60,000 sq km.(Additional reporting by Tim Hepher, Siva Govindasamy, Praveen Menon, Emmanuel Jarry, Ebrahim Harris, Alwyn Scott, Michael Martina and Lincoln Feast; Writing by Paul Tait and John Chalmers; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Robert Birsel)
Flight MH370 mystery: Will French probe clarify or frustrate? -France, known for being deliberate in air safety investigations, is taking the lead on identifying suspected Flight MH370 debris that washed up on Reunion Island, French territory.Christian Science Monitor By Colette Davidson-aug 6,15-yahoonews
France’s deputy prosecutor Serge Mackowiak announced Wednesday that there was a “very high probability” that a wing part – a flaperon – found July 29 on Reunion Island, a French overseas territory, did indeed come from the missing plane.And on Thursday, Malaysian authorities said window parts and seat cushions also had washed up on Reunion Island.Recommended: How safe is flying? But the French so far are proceeding cautiously with the news – unlike the Malaysian authorities, who said the wing debris “conclusively confirmed” it came from the aircraft – and have hesitated to provide any definite confirmation of the expert findings. As additional testing on the flaperon continues at DGA Techniques AĆ©ronautiques in southwest France, the French have found themselves in a leading role in the crash investigation.But while Malaysian authorities head the international effort to find answers into the cause and details of the accident, some wonder how France’s independent judicial probe will integrate into the overall investigation. Could adding yet another expert inquiry delay offering concrete answers for victims’ families? France actually began a separate probe in March 2014, as it was entitled to do so after four of its citizens were declared to be among the 239 people on board flight MH370. However, the recent discovery of the flaperon on French soil mandated that France conduct an investigation under rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Three magistrates – specializing in terrorism and aviation accidents – were designated to launch the current judicial inquiry into the wing part.Philippe Julienne, a French aviation expert, says the French probe will focus solely on the technical aspect of the crash, looking at the serial and part number of the flaperon to verify a match with the missing plane. “They need to be 95 percent sure that this part is from the plane crash,” he says. Experts will also use the wing part to try to assess how the plane went down.CRITICISM OF MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES-While both France’s Mr. Mackowiac and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stressed the fact that Wednesday’s findings could help provide a resolution to families still waiting for answers on the fates of their loved ones, the final results of the overall inquiry into the crash could be years away. France, historically, has hesitated to go public with air safety expert findings: More than six years after the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, the criminal investigation is still under way.“The judicial team doesn’t want to be stampeded by false media representations of the accident,” says Francois Godement, a specialist in Asia and international relations and a professor at Sciences Po university in Paris. But if the final results of the flaperon findings could take some time, Malaysian authorities could potentially benefit from France’s help. Since the 2014 disappearance, Malaysian authorities have been criticized for their response: among other things, for failing to notify families of the crash before going public with the announcement as well as erroneously designating the site of the crash early on. Even their announcement regarding the flaperon Wednesday – via text message – was poorly received by many of the victims’ families.According to the Associated Press, Jacquita Gomes – the wife of crew member Patrick Gomes – only learned about the results of the testing a half-hour before the Malaysian prime minister's announcement.“Now that they have confirmed it as MH370, I know my husband is no longer of this world, but they just can't leave it with this one flaperon,” Mrs. Gomes said. “We urge them to continue searching until they find the plane and bring it back.”A NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY-Malaysian authorities have been choosy about whom they work with in the crash investigation – supposedly eyeing the US’s National Transportation Safety Board with suspicion and preferring to collaborate with Australia and the UK. But many experts say it is in Malaysia’s best interest to remain transparent in their proceedings with the French.Gustav Gessel, an expert in international security policy at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says a lack of transparency would backfire on both the French and the Malaysians.“As Malaysian Airlines is under financial pressure due to the effects of two catastrophes [flight MH370 and flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014] in a relatively short amount of time,” he says, “I don’t think the Malaysians will make a political fuss out of it.”Already the lines of communication appear to be open, as the Malaysian prime minister made his announcement of the flaperon just minutes before that of the French deputy prosecutor – announcing the results with even more certainty. This suggests, says Mr. Godement, that the Malaysians are receiving the same information as the French and other international experts, and that the two countries will continue to work together for the remainder of the inquiry.“The French don’t have a vested interest in falsifying the findings or unnecessarily delaying the results, as the plane is not manufactured in France,” says Godement. “It just so happens that the debris washed up on French soil and that Toulouse has one of the biggest and best aerospace testing centers in the world.”
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MH370
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/preliminaryreport.pdf
ACTION TAKEN
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/actions.pdf
CARGO MANIFESTO
http://www.straitstimes.com/sites/straitstimes.com/files/20140501/MH370%20-%20Cargo%20Manifest%20and%20Airway%20Bill_0.pdf
MH370 RAW DATA
http://www.dca.gov.my/mainpage.html
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
SEAT NUMBERS BY CITIZENS ON PLANE & ROUTE OF PLANE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/05/day-55-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
LATEST MH370 NEWS 2015
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/after-516-days-missing-malaysian-prime.html (DAY-516)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/just-waiting-for-boeing-777-comfirmation.html (DAY-514)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/malaysia-says-wing-part-is-boeing-777.html (DAY-513)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/2nd-number-identified-from-boeing-777.html (DAY-512)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/possible-suite-case-found-from-flight.html (DAY-511)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/debris-numbers-on-wing-parcial.html (DAY-510)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/boeing-thinks-plane-part-found-on.html (DAY-510)
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/10/next-phase-of-hunting-for-mh370-starts.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/isis-wants-to-kill-pope-mh370-may-have_30.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/nearly-5-months-later-mh370-will-be.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-95-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-94-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-91-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 67 TO 91 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/day-91-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 47 TO 66 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/05/day-66-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 33 TO 46 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
BOEING
http://www.boeing.com/
MH370 FLIGHT HISTORY
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370
http://www.tomnod.com/campaign/mh370_indian_ocean/map/1fex13y4b
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
MH17 MANAFESTO
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/malaysia-airlines/mas/PDF/MH17/MH17%20PAX%20AND%20CREW%20MANIFEST%20200714.pdf
AIRASIA FLIGHT QZ8501 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_14.html
IDENTIFICATION PAGE OF THE DEAD FROM FLIGHT QZ 8501-A320-200
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/identification-page-of-passengers-and.html
FLIGHTAWARE FOR QZ 8501 MISSING PLANE
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWQ8501/history/20141228/2220Z/WARR/WSSS
AIR BUS - A320-200
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Asiana/Asiana_Airbus_A320-200.php
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/cabin-layout/
AIRASIA CEO TONY FERNANDES
http://www.ndtv.com/topic/tony-fernandes/news/page-3
A PICTURE OF THE MISSING MH370 FOR 16 MONTHS PLUS.AND NOW MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND A PIECE OF-pic-theregister.co.uk
UPDATE-AUGUST 07,2015-12:00AM
Frustrated Flight 370 families: 'We need definite answers'-Associated Press By IAN MADER-aug 6,15-yahoonews
BEIJING (AP) — Families aching for closure after their relatives disappeared aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last year vented deep frustration Thursday at differing statements from Malaysia and France over whether the finding of a plane part had been confirmed."Why the hell do you have one confirm and one not?" asked Sara Weeks of Christchurch, New Zealand. Her brother, Paul Weeks, was on the plane that disappeared March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing."Why not wait and get everybody on the same page so the families don't need to go through this turmoil?" she said.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced early Thursday that a plane wing section found on the French island of Reunion was "conclusively confirmed" to be from Flight 370, saying he hoped the news would end "unspeakable" uncertainty. The announcement was in line with the Malaysian conclusion that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people aboard.But French officials with custody of the wing part said only that there were strong indications the barnacle-encrusted part — known as a "flaperon" — was from the flight and that they would work further to try to confirm the finding."After 17 months, we need definite answers," Weeks said. "We need to progress, get answers, move toward further answers, and get some closure along the line."About two-thirds of the passengers were from China, and in Beijing, Xu Jinghong said she could not understand why Malaysian and French authorities did not make their statements together."I am very angry — so angry that my hands and feet are cold," Xu, 41, said in an interview early Thursday outside her downtown home. "The announcement was made without experts from France present. I don't understand how the procedure can be like this."The statement by Najib would appear to give the first strong physical evidence of a crash, which could put to rest several theories that many relatives have refused to rule out, including that the plane and its passengers were hijacked and intact in some still-unknown location.Irene Burrows, the 85-year-old mother of missing Australian passenger Rod Burrows, who was lost with his wife, Mary, said last year that she didn't expect the mystery to be solved in her lifetime. She said at the time: "All I just want is a bit of the plane. It's all I want to know — where they are."For her, Thursday's confirmation was a simple wish come true."We're quite pleased that it's been found," she said from her home in Biloela in northeastern Australia.However, for many relatives, any potential certainty was diluted by the word from Paris, where Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak said the "very strong conjectures" that the wing part was from the missing Boeing 777 still needed to be "confirmed by complementary analysis" that would begin later Thursday.It was unclear whether the mix-up was a result of miscommunication between the two countries, differing notions of the burden of proof, or whether Malaysian officials were overeager to send out some definitive signal for relatives of the missing.In any case, a full confirmation of the wing part wasn't likely to bring total closure for relatives, with the rest of the plane and the bodies still missing.Jiang Hui, whose mother was on board, said there was still a lack of evidence to prove that the plane crashed as was announced by Malaysian officials last year. At the time, they cited thorough analysis of the limited satellite data available for the flight. Major questions remain, including why the plane went off course."The finding of debris does not mean the finding of our next of kin," said Jiang, 41.About a dozen Chinese relatives of passengers gathered Thursday at Malaysia Airlines offices in Beijing, holding signs, including one saying, "Malaysia hides the truth." After several hours, the group was invited into a closed-door talk with airline officials. They later went to Boeing offices but weren't allowed in.While confirming ocean-borne debris from the plane is an important threshold for many relatives, it will be difficult for some to fully come to terms with the disaster without seeing the body of their loved one, said Nancy Smyth, a University of Buffalo sociologist focusing on psychological trauma.The finding of the wing piece "is certainly a step toward closure," Smyth said, adding: "It is important not to think of closure as a check box, but more of a journey and process for people with a lot of layers.""So much of our grieving process involves physicality, such as seeing the body, and that's not present here, which makes it very difficult for the families to gain closure," she said.Melanie Antonio, whose husband was a Flight 370 flight attendant, said she wasn't sure how to feel."I'm numb, I'm not sad," she said in Kuala Lumpur. "It's just a flaperon, it doesn't prove anything. We still need the wreckage to prove. I just want anything that can tell me my hubby is gone."Jacquita Gomes, also the wife of a flight attendant, echoed that sentiment. "If it's not too much to ask, I still want the remains of my husband."___Associated Press writer Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, video journalists Zhang Weiqun and Aritz Parra in Beijing, writer Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, and photographer Joshua Paul in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to this report.
Malaysia says matches prove wing part is from missing flight MH370-Reuters By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah-aug 6,15-yahoonews
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Thursday paint color and maintenance-record matches proved that a piece of wing found on the shore of an Indian Ocean island was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without trace last year.Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said investigators on the French island of Reunion had collected more aircraft debris, including a plane window and aluminum foil, but there was no confirmation they also belonged to the missing plane.With the first trace of the plane confirmed, Malaysia has asked the governments of neighboring Mauritius and Madagascar to help widen the search area, he told reporters.Earlier, Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed that the piece of debris was from the Boeing 777 airliner that was bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers and crew on board when it went missing."Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370," Najib said in a televised address.The airline described the find as "a major breakthrough".The first piece of direct evidence that the plane crashed in the sea closed a chapter in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.But exactly what happened remains unknown and Najib's announcement did not appear to represent any kind of resolution for the families of those on board, most of whom were Chinese.The fragment of wing known as a flaperon was flown to mainland France after being found last week covered in barnacles on a Reunion beach.Despite the Malaysian confirmation, prosecutors in France stopped short of declaring they were certain, saying only that there was a "very strong presumption".Deputy Paris Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak said this was based on technical data supplied by both the manufacturer and airline but gave no indication that experts had discovered a serial number or unique markings that would put the link beyond doubt.Representatives of manufacturer Boeing confirmed that the flaperon came from a 777 jet, he said, and Malaysia Airlines provided documentation of the missing aircraft.Mackowiak told reporters more analysis would be carried out on Thursday, and a fragment of luggage also found in Reunion would be examined by French police."We appreciate the French team and their support and respect their decision to continue with the verification," Liow said, adding that Malaysian experts were convinced the flaperon was from MH370 because a seal on the part matched a maintenance record and the paint was the same color.-SEARCH FOR CLUES-A group of families from China said French investigators and Boeing must also say definitively the wing piece was from the plane."We are not living in denial ... but we owe it to our loved ones not to declare them lost without 100 percent certainty!" the families said on their microblog.China's foreign ministry urged Malaysia to keep investigating and to "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests" of relatives.Investigators looking at the wing flap at an aeronautical facility in the French city of Toulouse are likely to start by putting slices of metal under a high-powered microscope, to see clues in its crystal structure about how it deformed on impact, said Hans Weber, president of TECOP International, Inc., an aerospace technology consulting firm.They would probably then "do a full physical examination, using ultrasonic analysis before they open it up to see if there's any internal damage", Weber said."That might take quite a while. A month or months."John Goglia, a former board member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, told Reuters much could be learned from examining the metal and how the brackets that held the flaperon in place had broken.However, other experts cautioned that the cause of the disaster may remain beyond the reach of investigators until other debris or data and cockpit voice recorders are recovered."Debris such as the flaperon can only increase our understanding of the last seconds of the flight," said Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor at industry publication Flightglobal.Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, and is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) east of Reunion.Investigators believe that someone may have deliberately switched off the aircraft's transponder, diverted it off course and deliberately crashed into the sea.An initial search of a 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) patch of sea floor has been extended to another 60,000 sq km.(Additional reporting by Tim Hepher, Siva Govindasamy, Praveen Menon, Emmanuel Jarry, Ebrahim Harris, Alwyn Scott, Michael Martina and Lincoln Feast; Writing by Paul Tait and John Chalmers; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Robert Birsel)
Flight MH370 mystery: Will French probe clarify or frustrate? -France, known for being deliberate in air safety investigations, is taking the lead on identifying suspected Flight MH370 debris that washed up on Reunion Island, French territory.Christian Science Monitor By Colette Davidson-aug 6,15-yahoonews
France’s deputy prosecutor Serge Mackowiak announced Wednesday that there was a “very high probability” that a wing part – a flaperon – found July 29 on Reunion Island, a French overseas territory, did indeed come from the missing plane.And on Thursday, Malaysian authorities said window parts and seat cushions also had washed up on Reunion Island.Recommended: How safe is flying? But the French so far are proceeding cautiously with the news – unlike the Malaysian authorities, who said the wing debris “conclusively confirmed” it came from the aircraft – and have hesitated to provide any definite confirmation of the expert findings. As additional testing on the flaperon continues at DGA Techniques AĆ©ronautiques in southwest France, the French have found themselves in a leading role in the crash investigation.But while Malaysian authorities head the international effort to find answers into the cause and details of the accident, some wonder how France’s independent judicial probe will integrate into the overall investigation. Could adding yet another expert inquiry delay offering concrete answers for victims’ families? France actually began a separate probe in March 2014, as it was entitled to do so after four of its citizens were declared to be among the 239 people on board flight MH370. However, the recent discovery of the flaperon on French soil mandated that France conduct an investigation under rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Three magistrates – specializing in terrorism and aviation accidents – were designated to launch the current judicial inquiry into the wing part.Philippe Julienne, a French aviation expert, says the French probe will focus solely on the technical aspect of the crash, looking at the serial and part number of the flaperon to verify a match with the missing plane. “They need to be 95 percent sure that this part is from the plane crash,” he says. Experts will also use the wing part to try to assess how the plane went down.CRITICISM OF MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES-While both France’s Mr. Mackowiac and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stressed the fact that Wednesday’s findings could help provide a resolution to families still waiting for answers on the fates of their loved ones, the final results of the overall inquiry into the crash could be years away. France, historically, has hesitated to go public with air safety expert findings: More than six years after the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, the criminal investigation is still under way.“The judicial team doesn’t want to be stampeded by false media representations of the accident,” says Francois Godement, a specialist in Asia and international relations and a professor at Sciences Po university in Paris. But if the final results of the flaperon findings could take some time, Malaysian authorities could potentially benefit from France’s help. Since the 2014 disappearance, Malaysian authorities have been criticized for their response: among other things, for failing to notify families of the crash before going public with the announcement as well as erroneously designating the site of the crash early on. Even their announcement regarding the flaperon Wednesday – via text message – was poorly received by many of the victims’ families.According to the Associated Press, Jacquita Gomes – the wife of crew member Patrick Gomes – only learned about the results of the testing a half-hour before the Malaysian prime minister's announcement.“Now that they have confirmed it as MH370, I know my husband is no longer of this world, but they just can't leave it with this one flaperon,” Mrs. Gomes said. “We urge them to continue searching until they find the plane and bring it back.”A NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY-Malaysian authorities have been choosy about whom they work with in the crash investigation – supposedly eyeing the US’s National Transportation Safety Board with suspicion and preferring to collaborate with Australia and the UK. But many experts say it is in Malaysia’s best interest to remain transparent in their proceedings with the French.Gustav Gessel, an expert in international security policy at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says a lack of transparency would backfire on both the French and the Malaysians.“As Malaysian Airlines is under financial pressure due to the effects of two catastrophes [flight MH370 and flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014] in a relatively short amount of time,” he says, “I don’t think the Malaysians will make a political fuss out of it.”Already the lines of communication appear to be open, as the Malaysian prime minister made his announcement of the flaperon just minutes before that of the French deputy prosecutor – announcing the results with even more certainty. This suggests, says Mr. Godement, that the Malaysians are receiving the same information as the French and other international experts, and that the two countries will continue to work together for the remainder of the inquiry.“The French don’t have a vested interest in falsifying the findings or unnecessarily delaying the results, as the plane is not manufactured in France,” says Godement. “It just so happens that the debris washed up on French soil and that Toulouse has one of the biggest and best aerospace testing centers in the world.”