MH370: What the wing fragment from Reunion could tell experts about plane’s crash
Microscopic clues on plane fragment may allow aviation experts to piece together what happened to ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet in March 2014
Under a microscope and expert eyes, the wing fragment that washed up on the beach of this volcanic island could yield clues not just to its path through the Indian Ocean, but also to what happened to the plane it belonged to.
French authorities imposed extraordinary secrecy over the two-metre-long piece of wing, putting it under police protection in the hours before it left the French island of Reunion.
Once it arrived at Paris’ Orly airport, a police escort took the item by road to a Ministry of Defence laboratory near Toulouse.
If the fragment is indeed part of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, it means the wreckage may have drifted thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean to Reunion off the east coast of Africa.