Malaysia flight 370 Where is it?

[Dyna]

 Interesting. If this were MH370
I wonder how trusting people will be to the term verified any longer.

Last month, French authorities confirmed a piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean as being from MH370.

If not we have another airliner? Surely it had to be large to even suspect a link.

[spacemaverick]

French went inside the found piece (flaperon) and found serial numbers that matched MH-370's part database.

[Dyna]

French went inside the found piece (flaperon) and found serial numbers that matched MH-370's part database.

Exactly

[ArMaP]

Interesting. If this were MH370
I wonder how trusting people will be to the term verified any longer.
If not we have another airliner? Surely it had to be large to even suspect a link.

There are at least two other possibilities:
1 - this new story is fake;
2 - this new story was exaggerated and the plane found is a small plane.

[astr0144]

How an Eighteenth-Century Statistician Is Helping to Find MH370

The 18th-century statistician behind the latest search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is so influential in modern-day logic that his work has been used to show the existence of God.
After hunting in vain for almost two years, Australian authorities said Thursday they've narrowed down the missing jet's most likely location to a new "hot spot" in the southern part of a 120,000 square kilometer zone. Bayesian analysis, based on the probability theory of Thomas Bayes, has proved central to mapping out the probable resting place of the aircraft.
The Australian Defence, Science and Technology Group used Bayes' statistical approach to crunch data on satellite communications, aircraft dynamics and the environment to refine the search area.
So why has an idea developed by an English Presbyterian minister become so important centuries after his death in 1761?
Bayes' law or rule, as it's now known, describes the probability of an event taking place once other conditions are taken into account. Those conditions might include previous studies and experiments, or even human bias weighing on the data.
At the heart of the approach is the quantification of uncertainties -- calculations that are continually updated as new information arises.
"It's a very natural learning cycle," said Kerrie Mengersen, a professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane who has studied Bayesian statistics for more than 20 years. "It allows in a very repeatable way the inclusion of different sources of information."
Modern computer-processing power now allows us to calculate the uncertainties that Bayes once theorized, making the approach helpful in a range of areas from medicine and genetics to defense and finance, said Mengersen.
Bayesian analysis has permeated financial markets. Former Federal Reserve Board Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben S. Bernanke and current Australian central bank Governor Glenn Stevens have all acknowledged the influence of Bayes on policy making.
In his 2003 book, The Probability of God, Stephen D. Unwin ran Bayes' equation to argue that God exists. The technique helped find the lost nuclear submarine USS Scorpion in 1968 and was used in the successful search for Air France Flight 447, almost two years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
Rescue crew recover debris from Air France flight 447
Rescue crew recover debris from Air France flight 447 Photographer: HO/AFP/Getty Images
In the hunt for AF447, scientists from Metron Inc., a Virginia-based consulting company, applied Bayesian analysis to calculate the wreckage's most likely location.
They estimated the distance the plane traveled from its last known position by looking at nine other accidents involving loss of control. Thirty-three recovered bodies were reverse-tracked to the moment of impact by assessing winds and currents. And unsuccessful underwater sonar searches also featured in the math, building in the chance that the plane's locator beacons weren't actually emitting a signal.
The wreckage was eventually discovered near the center of Metron's highest-probability zone.
A counter-intuitive probability puzzle called the Monty Hall problem is still taught today to demonstrate Bayes' rule in action. It's named after the host of the 1960s U.S. television game show, "Let's Make a Deal."
The contestant is given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car. Behind the other two, goats. The contestant chooses door No. 1. Then the host, who is aware of where the car is, opens No. 2 to reveal a goat. He offers the contestant the chance to switch from No. 1 to No. 3. Should he change his mind?
Door No. 1 always had a 1-in-3 chance of success. A Bayesian approach would conclude that by eliminating door No. 2 -- new information -- door No. 3 now carries a 2-in-3 chance of success. So the contestant should switch to door No. 3.
"The very first time I heard it, I said: 'you're joking,"' said Mengersen at Queensland University of Technology. "But when you do the calculations, you change your mind."


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/find-mh370-next-job-for-theory-used-to-show-existence-of-god?cmpid=yhoo.headline


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Timeline: The Search for MH370

Looks an interesting article with good maps & images..

Click link below for more images.. there is two many to copy as I write in the time I have..




  Wreckage Found Came From Missing Flight MH370
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 galvanized a multinational search, spawned theories ranging from an accident to air piracy and repeatedly dashed hopes that a resolution was at hand.
Below is a timeline of the events that began with the jet's departure from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing:
March 8, 2014:
12:41 a.m.: Flight 370 takes off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew members on board.

1:07 a.m.: Last transmission from the Boeing Co. 777-200ER via an onboard text-and-data messaging system known by the acronym Acars.

1:19 a.m.: Last communication from the cockpit. Transcript released April 1 said the last words were "Good Night Malaysian Three Seven Zero." Plane leaves Malaysian airspace, heading across the Gulf of Thailand toward Vietnam.

1:21 a.m.: Radar transponder is switched off.
1:37 a.m.: Next Acars transmission is due, and never comes.

2:15 a.m.: Malaysian military radar spots an aircraft on the west side of Peninsular Malaysia that isn't using its transponder. This development won't be publicly known until about a week later. The radar target is Flight 370, heading away from its planned route.

6:30 a.m.: Flight 370 is scheduled to arrive in Beijing.

7:39 a.m.: China's Xinhua news agency sends a flash bulletin saying contact had been lost. Chinese passengers make up about two-thirds of the people on board.
8:11 a.m.: Last satellite signal sent from the plane, known as a "handshake," is detected. This development won't be known for about a week.
8:19 a.m.: Evidence of a "partial handshake" between the aircraft and the ground station eight minutes after the last complete communication. This information was released March 25.
9:15 a.m.: No response from the aircraft when the ground station sent the next message, indicating the plane was no longer logged on to the network.
A Chinese relative of a missing passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacts outside the main gate of the Lama Temple in Beijing, China.
A Chinese relative of a missing passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacts outside the main gate of the Lama Temple in Beijing, China. Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Initial search efforts focus on the Gulf of Thailand, where twin oil slicks stir concern that they signal a crash on the plane's known route.
March 9: Speculation arises that the plane deviated from its route.

March 10: Malaysia expands the search area further into the South China Sea after a plane alerted Hong Kong air traffic controllers about possible debris.

March 11: The search expands east again as suspected debris is found off the coast of Vietnam.
March 12: Vietnam says the flight may have turned west after the last signal.
March 13: Speculation of the crash's location moves toward the Indian Ocean as evidence mounts that the flight continued away from its route after controllers lost radar contact.
March 14: The Andaman Sea becomes the latest empty lead in the search. Malaysia looks at the possibility of pilot and crew involvement.
This picture taken on March 10, 2014 shows students at Hailiang International School lighting candles to pray for the passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Zhuji, in China's Zhejiang province.
This picture taken on March 10, 2014 shows students at Hailiang International School lighting candles to pray for the passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Zhuji, in China's Zhejiang province. Photographer: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
March 15: Satellite transmissions trace the missing airliner to the Indian Ocean off of Australia. The pilots' homes are searched, and Prime Minister Najib Razak says new information shows the flight was intentionally diverted.

March 16: Evidence from satellite-signals shows that the plane operated for about seven hours after its last contact with air traffic control.

March 18: The disappearance becomes the longest in modern aviation history. The U.S. joins Australia in the Indian Ocean search.
March 19: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation joins Malaysia's inquiry, which now includes a probe of data removed from the pilot's home flight simulator on Feb. 3.
March 21: An analysis of so-called pings from the aircraft by satellite provider Inmarsat Plc concludes that the plane maintained a steady course and speed after radar contact was lost. The assessment is consistent with details suggesting that the plane was commanded, at least initially, from the cockpit and not disabled by an accident.
March 24: Najib, the prime minister, says Malaysia has concluded the flight ended in the Indian Ocean "far from any possible landing sites," ruling out theories of a detour over Asia or an island landing.

March 25: Families and friends of Chinese passengers protest in front of the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
March 28: The hunt for Flight 370 focuses on a new area in the Indian Ocean after radar data indicate the plane probably flew a shorter distance than earlier estimated. The new zone is about 1,100 kilometers to the northeast of the previous search location.

April 1: Malaysia releases the full transcript of communications between Flight 370 and Kuala Lumpur's air traffic control, which the government says reveals nothing abnormal.
April 4: From surface vessels, crews start underwater scouring of the southern Indian Ocean for pings emitted by the aircraft's black box as their batteries near the end of their 30-day lifespan.
April 5: Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 detects a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz while searching in the southern Indian Ocean, the official Xinhua News Agency reports. While underwater locator beacons transmit at that frequency, the signal could not be confirmed as related to Flight 370. It later detects a second, longer, unidentified signal.
April 6: As many as 12 planes and 13 ships search for the plane's wreckage on the 30th day after it went missing, with the black boxes' power supply due to run out.
April 7: Australia says the towed pinger-locator on ship Ocean Shield detected a first signal for two hours and 20 minutes, and a second one for 13 minutes over the weekend. The signals were heard about 600 kilometers northeast of where Haixun 01 picked up sounds earlier.
A crew member looks out an observation window aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion maratime search aircraft as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on April 11, 2014.
A crew member looks out an observation window aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion maratime search aircraft as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on April 11, 2014. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images
April 14: With the batteries in the aircraft's black boxes likely dead, an unmanned submarine known as Bluefin-21, which uses side-scan sonar to capture images of the ocean bottom, is launched to search for plane.
May 1: Government documents show air-traffic controllers and Malaysia Airlines struggled for hours to understand what was happening on the day MH370 vanished, even as the country's military watched the plane appear to reverse course. Malaysia Airlines says it will make advance payments to the next of kin.
May 28: The search is suspended for about three months as investigators assemble a better survey of the seabed.
In this handout image provided by Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence, Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 is in the water after being craned over the side of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield to begin using its side scan sonar in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on April 14, 2014.
In this handout image provided by Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence, Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 is in the water after being craned over the side of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield to begin using its side scan sonar in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on April 14, 2014. Photographer: Handout/Getty Images
May 29: Officials say the deep-sea hunt focused on the wrong place for almost two months.
June 26: Investigators say they'll shift focus to a new location south of previous searches. Once started, they say, the search could take as long as 12 months.
Sept. 11: The deep-sea sonar search resumes in a 60,000 square-kilometer zone off the coast of Western Australia.
Jan. 29: Malaysia declares Flight 370 an accident and all 239 people on board presumed dead to help families obtain assistance, including compensation.
March 8, 2015: Families of those aboard MH370 hold vigils and protests to mark one year since the plane's disappearance.
July 29: French officials on Reunion Island notify the Australian Transport Safety Bureau of the discovery of what appears to be part of a plane wing. Based on photos, the wreckage appears to have come from a Boeing 777, the same model as MH370, a person familiar with the investigation says.
July 30: Malaysia Airlines and Prime Minister Najib Razak say it's too early to speculate on the origins of the part, which is being sent to a lab in Toulouse, France.
August 6: Najib confirmed that the part, a flaperon, came from MH370. A suitcase discovered near the debris also will be studied.
December 3 2016: Australia says three-quarters of  new`hot spot' area searched.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/timeline-the-17-month-search-for-mh370

[spacemaverick]

Nice going astro....Hopefully they will find the aircraft.  It certainly remains one of the greatest mysteries of all times.

[COSMO]

Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away From Keeping Secrets Forever

MH370 is weeks away from becoming aviation's biggest unsolved mystery since Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. Of the 3 million components in the jet, only one has turned up -- a barnacle-encrusted wing flap -- on Reunion Island, thousands of miles from the search. There have been no traces of the 239 people on board, their luggage or even the life jackets that were supposed to float.

"There's always this question: Have we missed something?" Dolan, 58, said at his office in Canberra. "That's the sort of thing that will occasionally keep me awake at night."

Some of the world's most experienced search-and-rescue experts increasingly accept that the A$180 million ($130 million) search may fail. Without fresh clues, the hunt should end about June, when four ships are due to finish combing the seas off western Australia, Dolan said. Within a rectangle the size of North Korea, vessels have scoured most of the patch believed to be the likely impact point -- and come up empty.

Never to be found???


Cosmo

[spacemaverick]

Where in the world can it be??  I still think someone knows with them spy satellites up there.

[zorgon]

THIS is interesting...

MH370 Pilot Resurfaces In Taiwan, Two Years After Flight Disappearance

To this day, no one really knows what happened to the plane or the passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared in March 2013, however one that that has stumped investigators, is how the pilot has mysteriously reappeared in a Taiwan hospital on Monday, suffering from amnesia. From the pilots committing suicide, to aliens and a second "Asian Bermuda Triangle," the video below takes a look at 10 of the most popular theories of what could have possibly happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

http://www.unsilentmajoritynews.com/mh370-pilot-resurfaces-in-taiwan-two-years-after-flight-disappearance/

[ArMaP]

That article's source is worldnewsdailyreport, a site that has this disclaimer:

WNDR shall not be responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this website or by any technical or human error which may occur.

WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people –  are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.

[spacemaverick]

Any other sources to this story?  Back to digging to see what's up.....

[spacemaverick]

http://www.snopes.com/mh370-pilot-mysteriously-resurfaces/

I don't like Snopes but they seems to have done some digging themselves this time and the original source is a site called Link Beef.

[space otter]

 

these hoaxing websites are  interesting when you find out that's what they are.
I just  got caught with the marijuana from space one

.but so few folks look stuff up to check out the source and the hoax is picked up as real and spread..without question




high five to ArMaP

[spacemaverick]

these hoaxing websites are  interesting when you find out that's what they are.
I just  got caught with the marijuana from space one

.but so few folks look stuff up to check out the source and the hoax is picked up as real and spread..without question




high five to ArMaP

Some gold for ArMap...!!!

[astr0144]

MH370: Likely piece of doomed plane found, U.S. official says.

The American tourist who helped find a piece of wreckage that may have belonged to MH370 hopes the debris, if connected with the missing airliner, can provide a clue.

check article for more images.. The article refers to Captions for some of 41 images.. That's too many for me to add into this post....

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Map..



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Blaine Gibson chartered a boat and organized a trip over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique. The owner of the boat and Gibson found the plane part washed ashore on a sandbar.

"It never occurred to me that I would find something like this here. It's almost like a dream. I don't know if it's from 370 or another plane. Whatever it is, even if it's not from 370, it raises awareness that people need to look for stuff on beaches," said Gibson, who has been involved in the search for MH370 as a private citizen.

He is also part of an independent group that interpreted data in a bid to find the missing plane.

It's not unusual for private people and companies to get involved in searches for missing planes, especially when the search has gone on for a long time.

A passenger views a weather map in the departures terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 22, 2014.
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A Chinese satellite captured this image, released on March 22, 2014, of a floating object in the Indian Ocean, according to China's State Administration of Science. It was a possible lead in the search for the missing plane. Surveillance planes were looking for two objects spotted by satellite imagery in remote, treacherous waters more than 1,400 miles from the west coast of Australia.
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Satellite imagery provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on March 20, 2014, showed debris in the southern Indian Ocean that could have been from Flight 370. The announcement by Australian officials raised hopes of a breakthrough in the frustrating search.
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Another satellite shot provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows possible debris from the flight.
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A distraught relative of a missing passenger breaks down while talking to reporters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 19, 2014.
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On March 18, 2014, a relative of a missing passenger tells reporters in Beijing about a hunger strike to protest authorities' handling of information about the missing jet.
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U.S. Navy crew members assist in search-and-rescue operations in the Indian Ocean on March 16, 2014.
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Members of the Chinese navy continue search operations on March 13, 2014. After starting in the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, the plane's last confirmed location, search efforts expanded west into the Indian Ocean.
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A Vietnamese military official looks out an aircraft window during search operations March 13, 2014.
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Malaysian air force members look for debris near Kuala Lumpur on March 13, 2014.
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Relatives of missing passengers wait for the latest news at a hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.
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A member of the Vietnamese air force checks a map while searching for the missing plane on March 11, 2014.
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A Vietnamese air force plane found traces of oil that authorities had suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the Vietnamese government online newspaper reported on March 8, 2014. However, a sample from the slick showed it was bunker oil, typically used to power large cargo ships, Malaysia's state news agency, Bernama, reported on March 10, 2014.
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A U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter lands aboard the USS Pinckney to change crews on March 9, 2014, before returning to search for the missing plane in the Gulf of Thailand.
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Buddhist monks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport offer a special prayer for the missing passengers on March 9, 2014.
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Members of a Chinese emergency response team board a rescue vessel at the port of Sanya in China's Hainan province on March 9, 2014.
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The rescue vessel sets out from Sanya in the South China Sea on March 9, 2014.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, arrives to meet family members of missing passengers at the reception center at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014.
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A relative of two missing passengers reacts at their home in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.
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Chinese police at the Beijing airport stand beside the arrival board showing delayed Flight 370 in red on March 8, 2014.
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Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Juahari Yahya, front, speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Sepang on March 8, 2014. "We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts" with the jet, he said.
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In the last weekend of February, 2016,  American tourist Blaine Gibson found a piece of plane debris on the coast of Mozambique that is thought to be from missing flight MH370. The piece, measuring 35 by 22 inches, is believed to be part of a Boeing 777 tail. It's been sent to Malaysia for further testing.
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On July 29, police carry a piece of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/world/gallery/debris-found-reunion-island/index.html" target="_blank">debris on Reunion Island</a>, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. A week later, authorities confirmed that the debris was from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014.
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Relatives of the flight's passengers console each other outside the Malaysia Airlines office in Subang, Malaysia, on February 12, 2015. Protesters had demanded that the airline withdraw the statement that all 239 people aboard the plane were dead.
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A police officer watches a couple cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The couple's son was on the plane.
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Members of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from communications between satellites and the missing flight was released the day before, more than two months after relatives of passengers said they requested it be made public.
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Operators aboard the Australian ship Ocean Shield move Bluefin-21, the U.S. Navy's autonomous underwater vehicle, into position to search for the jet on April 14, 2014.
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A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks out of a window while searching for debris off the coast of western Australia on April 13, 2014.
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The HMS Echo, a vessel with the British Roya; Navy, moves through the waters of the southern Indian Ocean on April 12, 2014.
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A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the search, flies past the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 9, 2014.
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A relative of a missing passenger cries at a vigil in Beijing on April 8, 2014.
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Australian Defense Force divers scan the water for debris in the southern Indian Ocean on April 7, 2014.
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A towed pinger locator is readied to be deployed off the deck of the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 7, 2014.
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A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks at a flare in the Indian Ocean during search operations on April 4, 2014.
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On March 30, 2014, a woman in Kuala Lumpur prepares for an event in honor of those aboard Flight 370.
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The sole representative for the families of Flight 370 passengers leaves a conference at a Beijing hotel on March 28, 2014, after other relatives left en masse to protest the Malaysian government's response to their questions.
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A member of the Royal Australian Air Force is silhouetted against the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the missing jet on March 27, 2014.
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Flight Lt. Jayson Nichols looks at a map aboard a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft during a search on March 27, 2014.
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People in Kuala Lumpur light candles during a ceremony held for the missing flight's passengers on March 27, 2014.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, delivers a statement about the flight on March 24, 2014. Razak's announcement came after the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it "deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH 370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived."
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Grieving relatives of missing passengers leave a hotel in Beijing on March 24, 2014.
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A passenger views a weather map in the departures terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 22, 2014.
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A Chinese satellite captured this image, released on March 22, 2014, of a floating object in the Indian Ocean, according to China's State Administration of Science. It was a possible lead in the search for the missing plane. Surveillance planes were looking for two objects spotted by satellite imagery in remote, treacherous waters more than 1,400 miles from the west coast of Australia.
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Satellite imagery provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on March 20, 2014, showed debris in the southern Indian Ocean that could have been from Flight 370. The announcement by Australian officials raised hopes of a breakthrough in the frustrating search.
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Another satellite shot provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows possible debris from the flight.
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A distraught relative of a missing passenger breaks down while talking to reporters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 19, 2014.
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On March 18, 2014, a relative of a missing passenger tells reporters in Beijing about a hunger strike to protest authorities' handling of information about the missing jet.
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U.S. Navy crew members assist in search-and-rescue operations in the Indian Ocean on March 16, 2014.
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Members of the Chinese navy continue search operations on March 13, 2014. After starting in the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, the plane's last confirmed location, search efforts expanded west into the Indian Ocean.
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A Vietnamese military official looks out an aircraft window during search operations March 13, 2014.
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Malaysian air force members look for debris near Kuala Lumpur on March 13, 2014.
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Relatives of missing passengers wait for the latest news at a hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.
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A member of the Vietnamese air force checks a map while searching for the missing plane on March 11, 2014.
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A Vietnamese air force plane found traces of oil that authorities had suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the Vietnamese government online newspaper reported on March 8, 2014. However, a sample from the slick showed it was bunker oil, typically used to power large cargo ships, Malaysia's state news agency, Bernama, reported on March 10, 2014.
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A U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter lands aboard the USS Pinckney to change crews on March 9, 2014, before returning to search for the missing plane in the Gulf of Thailand.
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Buddhist monks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport offer a special prayer for the missing passengers on March 9, 2014.
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Members of a Chinese emergency response team board a rescue vessel at the port of Sanya in China's Hainan province on March 9, 2014.
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The rescue vessel sets out from Sanya in the South China Sea on March 9, 2014.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, arrives to meet family members of missing passengers at the reception center at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014.
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A relative of two missing passengers reacts at their home in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.
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Chinese police at the Beijing airport stand beside the arrival board showing delayed Flight 370 in red on March 8, 2014.
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Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Juahari Yahya, front, speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Sepang on March 8, 2014. "We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts" with the jet, he said.
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In the last weekend of February, 2016,  American tourist Blaine Gibson found a piece of plane debris on the coast of Mozambique that is thought to be from missing flight MH370. The piece, measuring 35 by 22 inches, is believed to be part of a Boeing 777 tail. It's been sent to Malaysia for further testing.
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On July 29, police carry a piece of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/world/gallery/debris-found-reunion-island/index.html" target="_blank">debris on Reunion Island</a>, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. A week later, authorities confirmed that the debris was from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014.
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Relatives of the flight's passengers console each other outside the Malaysia Airlines office in Subang, Malaysia, on February 12, 2015. Protesters had demanded that the airline withdraw the statement that all 239 people aboard the plane were dead.
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A police officer watches a couple cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The couple's son was on the plane.
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Members of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from communications between satellites and the missing flight was released the day before, more than two months after relatives of passengers said they requested it be made public.
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Operators aboard the Australian ship Ocean Shield move Bluefin-21, the U.S. Navy's autonomous underwater vehicle, into position to search for the jet on April 14, 2014.
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A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks out of a window while searching for debris off the coast of western Australia on April 13, 2014.
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The HMS Echo, a vessel with the British Roya; Navy, moves through the waters of the southern Indian Ocean on April 12, 2014.
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A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the search, flies past the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 9, 2014.
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A relative of a missing passenger cries at a vigil in Beijing on April 8, 2014.
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Australian Defense Force divers scan the water for debris in the southern Indian Ocean on April 7, 2014.
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A towed pinger locator is readied to be deployed off the deck of the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 7, 2014.
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A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks at a flare in the Indian Ocean during search operations on April 4, 2014.
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On March 30, 2014, a woman in Kuala Lumpur prepares for an event in honor of those aboard Flight 370.
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The sole representative for the families of Flight 370 passengers leaves a conference at a Beijing hotel on March 28, 2014, after other relatives left en masse to protest the Malaysian government's response to their questions.
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A member of the Royal Australian Air Force is silhouetted against the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the missing jet on March 27, 2014.
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Flight Lt. Jayson Nichols looks at a map aboard a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft during a search on March 27, 2014.
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People in Kuala Lumpur light candles during a ceremony held for the missing flight's passengers on March 27, 2014.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, delivers a statement about the flight on March 24, 2014. Razak's announcement came after the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it "deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH 370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived."
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Grieving relatives of missing passengers leave a hotel in Beijing on March 24, 2014.
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A passenger views a weather map in the departures terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 22, 2014.
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After the underwater search for MH370 was postponed, Australia said it would negotiate with private contractors to conduct the next phase. Authorities chose the Dutch firm Fugro Survey to carry out the Indian Ocean search.

MH370 families at one point sought to raise $5 million to help find answers about the missing flight.

Gibson told CNN his "heart was pounding" when he first saw the wreckage, but expressed caution.

"The chances are pretty slim that it's the plane we are interested in," he said.

Still, Gibson, who has met some people who had family members on the flight, recognizes the potential impact of his find.

"These are real people with real pain. Anything that can bring answers, I want to help do," he said about the victims' friends and families.

Further examination required
The debris is apparently from a Boeing 777, like the missing MH370 airliner, according to a U.S. official.

MH370 searchers find uncharted shipwreck

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The discovery was reported to officials Monday, and Gibson handed over his find to Mozambique authorities, said Cmdr. Joao de Abreu Martins, chairman of the Institute of Civil Aviation of Mozambique.

The debris is on its way to Australia for further examination, that country's Minister for Transport and Infrastructure said in a statement. Australian and Malaysian officials, as well as international specialists, will be closely looking at the piece.

The part is believed to measure 35 inches by 22 inches. The wreckage is a piece of horizontal stabilizer skin, the U.S. official said.

The horizontal stabilizer is the part of the aircraft's tail that is horizontal as the plane flies.

The debris includes a fastener. An official at the fastener company, LISI Aerospace, said the part in question is a pretty standard part.

"I would expect to see this on many varieties of Boeing aircraft, not particular to a 777," said Jared Young, vice president of research and development.

An aviation source said there was no record of any Boeing 777 missing other than Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.

No comment from airline
The mystery of what happened to the plane remains unsolved. The search has turned up some aircraft debris, but also some false leads.

MH370 debris discovered on Reunion Island
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It took more than a month for French investigators to confirm that debris found on Reunion Island in July was from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

The airline displayed similar caution Wednesday when it would not confirm that the newly found debris is from MH370. "It is too speculative at this point for MAS to comment," the airline said, using its initials.

The Malaysian Transport Minister also urged caution.


Mozambique is about 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) west of Reunion Island, with the large island of Madagascar between them.

Debris found in Thailand in mid-January turned out not to be from MH370.

One of aviation's greatest mysteries
The disappearance of MH370 remains one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

The flight took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia early in the morning, bound for Beijing.

At 1:19 a.m., as the plane was flying over the South China Sea, Malaysian air traffic controllers radioed the crew to contact controllers in Ho Chi Minh City for the onward flight through Vietnamese airspace.

The crew's acknowledgment of the request was the last thing ever heard from MH370: "Good night Malaysian three-seven-zero."

Remembering the passengers of MH370
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Shortly afterward, air traffic controllers in Malaysia lost contact with the plane somewhere over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.

The aircraft's transponder, which identifies the plane and relays details like altitude and speed to controllers, stopped transmitting. MH370 seemingly disappeared without a trace.

Malaysian authorities revealed later that military radar had tracked the plane as it inexplicably changed course, turned back to the west and flew across the Malaysian Peninsula, up the Strait of Malacca, before flying out of radar range at 2:14 a.m. and vanishing once again.

Remembering those on board
Families and friends of people on board MH370 are planning a day of remembrance Sunday to mark two years since the disappearance of the flight.

Voice 370, a family support ground, said an event would be held at The Square in Publika, Kuala Lumpur.

"The families and friends of passengers on board MH370 have endured a long wait of two years for reliable news on the whereabouts of MH370 and the fate of our loved ones on board," the group said, calling for funds and for the search to continue.

"Every step to envisage life without a loved one who was on board the flight has been agonizing and the festering wounds of loss and 'not knowing' have made the task of initiating even the first steps towards 'moving on' practically impossible for family members," it said.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of pieces of debris found recently in Mozambique. One piece of debris was found.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/us/mh370-possible-debris-found/