Wing flap that washed ashore in Tanzania confirmed to belong to MH370

The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had in mid-air with 239 people on board during a regular flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014. A wing flap that had washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has now been identified as belonging to the missing Being 777.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 15 September 2016.

The flap was found in June by residents on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, and an analysis by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane, has confirmed that it was indeed from the aircraft.
This was the fifth piece of wreckage from the plane that have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since the aircraft vanished in mid-air in 2014.
Apart from the latest discovery of a wing flap, another piece of wing was found a year ago on La Reunion Island, near Madagascar and it was positively identified by French officials.
Search officials expect some more wreckage to wash up in the coming months but, none of the debris recovered so far has helped to narrow down the precise location of the main underwater wreckage.


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#andes #plane #chile #santiago #dc3 #wreckage A mountaineering team led by Leonardo Albornoz of Chile has located the wreckage of an aircraft that was lost 54 years ago in the Chilean Andes – the wreckage was at an altitude of 10,500 feet and about 215 miles south of Chile’s capital, Santiago. This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 10 February 2015.
Albornoz has not divulged the exact location of the site to prevent looting.
As per reports, the expedition found scattered debris and bones, and could see much of the plane’s fuselage without having to dig it out. It seems the wreckage was at a different location that what was shown in official publications. The crash had killed 24 people, including eight members of the Green Cross soccer team from Chile's top division. The Green Cross crash occurred on April 3 1961 and the plane was a Douglas DC-3. It was carrying members of the team and it went missing, sending shockwaves through the world of sport.
The players were returning to Santiago after playing a Copa de Chile game in the southern Chilean city of Osorno. The crash occurred just three years after the Munich air disaster in which 23 people were killed, including eight players and three staff members from English soccer powerhouse Manchester United.
In 1949, there was another air disaster - 31 people, including the entire Torino soccer team, died when their plane crashed into the retaining wall of the Basilica of Superga in Turin, Italy.