France expands Reunion

search for MH370

France has launched air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris linked to Flight MH370

Mar 8, 2014: MH370

vanishes with 239

people on board,

en route from Kuala

Lumpur to Beijing

Beijing

CHINA

Last military radar

contact with MH370

Major wind-

driven ocean

currents

Kuala

Lumpur

MALAYSIA

INDIAN OCEAN

Madagascar

Mauritius

AUSTRALIA

Search area:

119,140

sq km

Perth

Reunion:

Debris

found

FORENSIC

EXAMINATION

Wing segment

found on Reunion being

examined by international

aviation

experts

Flaperon

Disassembling of flaperon could reveal

stencilled serial numbers to confirm it

belonged to MH370

Chemical analysis of paint could confirm

match with Malaysia Airlines specifications

Microscopic examination of fracture

surfaces could determine how

flaperon detached from wing

Biological analysis of

barnacle shells attached

to flaperon could indicate

how long – and perhaps

where – segment has

been in water

Source: University of Toronto

Picture: AP, Hans Hillewaert

France expands Reunion

search for MH370

France has launched air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris linked to Flight MH370

Mar 8, 2014: MH370

vanishes with 239

people on board,

en route from Kuala

Lumpur to Beijing

Beijing

CHINA

Last military radar

contact with MH370

Major wind-

driven ocean

currents

Kuala

Lumpur

MALAYSIA

INDIAN OCEAN

Madagascar

Mauritius

AUSTRALIA

Search area:

119,140

sq km

Perth

Reunion:

Debris

found

FORENSIC

EXAMINATION

Wing segment

found on Reunion being

examined by international

aviation

experts

Flaperon

Disassembling of flaperon could reveal

stencilled serial numbers to confirm it

belonged to MH370

Chemical analysis of paint could confirm

match with Malaysia Airlines specifications

Microscopic examination of fracture

surfaces could determine how

flaperon detached from wing

Biological analysis of

barnacle shells attached

to flaperon could indicate

how long – and perhaps

where – segment has

been in water

Source: University of Toronto

Picture: AP, Hans Hillewaert

France expands Reunion

search for MH370

France has launched air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris linked to Flight MH370

Major wind-

driven ocean

currents

Beijing

CHINA

Kuala

Lumpur

MALAYSIA

1

2

Madagascar

INDIAN OCEAN

Search

area

Reunion: Debris found

1.

Perth

AUSTRALIA

Mar 8, 2014

MH370 vanishes

with 239 people

on board, en route

from Kuala Lumpur

to Beijing

2.

Last military

radar contact

with MH370

Flaperon

FORENSIC EXAMINATION

Wing segment – believed

to be port-side flaperon –

found on Reunion being

examined by international

aviation experts

Disassembling flaperon

could reveal stencilled serial

numbers to confirm it

belonged to MH370

Biological analysis of

barnacle shells attached to

flaperon could indicate how

long – and perhaps where –

segment has been in water

Source: University of Toronto

Picture: AP, Hans Hillewaert

France expands Reunion

search for MH370

France has launched air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris linked to Flight MH370

Major wind-driven

ocean currents

Beijing

CHINA

Kuala

Lumpur

MALAYSIA

1

Madagascar

2

INDIAN OCEAN

Search

area

Reunion:

Debris found

Perth

AUSTRALIA

Mar 8, 2014

1.

Flight MH370

vanishes with

239 people

on board,

en route from

Kuala Lumpur

to Beijing

Last military

2.

radar contact

with MH370

Flaperon

FORENSIC EXAMINATION

Wing segment found on Reunion

being examined by international

aviation experts

Disassembling flaperon could reveal

stencilled serial numbers to confirm

it belonged to MH370

Biological analysis

of barnacle shells

attached to

flaperon could

indicate how

long – and perhaps

where – segment

has been in water

Source: University of Toronto

Picture: Associated Press