Flight MH370: Initial Debris Drift Models Faulty

While intense examination and analysis of a Boeing 777 flaperon - an aircraft control surface - that was found on the shores of the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is being conducted in France, as reported earlier by HNGN, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has stated that the initial drift model that was utilized in the search for the missing plane was inaccurate.

The initial debris drift model that was put forward in June 2014 has suggested that there is a high probability that the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia would be the probable area where pieces of the plane's wreckage would be washed ashore, according to Reuters.

Models run by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in November 2014 and updated last month, however, indicate that there is an extremely low probability that the debris would end up in Indonesian shores.

The CSIRO report is based on a number of factors, including ocean currents, winds and waves, and it supports a theory that the missing airplane's debris may have washed up as far west of the search area as the French island near Madagascar, reports The International Business Times.

The flaperon that was recently washed ashore, which could very well be the first physical clue from the missing plane, was found in this area.

Warren Truss, Australia's deputy prime minister, has stated that an expert from the ATSB, which is leading the continued search for the missing plane, has been deployed to Toulouse, France, in order to aid in the examination and analysis of the Boeing 777 flaperon found in the island of Reunion.

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Flight MH370, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysian Airlines