A well-known plane crash shocked the entire world back in 2014 when it was brought to attention that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 had apparently crashed somewhere in an untraceable location which brought the whole world to standstill. Two years after, only a part of the debris has been found.
MH370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, had 239 people on board when it vanished in March 2014.The Boeing 777 is presumed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean after veering off course. The part numbers and a date stamp on the piece, recovered on Pemba island, helped the investigation.In addition to the Boeing part number, the report said, the identification stamps had an "OL" number, both unique identifiers to part construction.The Italian part manufacturer then recovered build records for those numbers, confirming that they belonged to the missing plane. And now, American debris hunter Blaine Gibson finds five new fragments in Madagascar which apparently belongs to the debris.
Five new pieces of debris thought to be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been recovered on the coast of Madagascar.Significantly, two of the small fragments appear to be burnt.The debris was found near Sainte Luce, in south-eastern Madagascar, by three locals and passed on to Blaine Gibson, an American lawyer-turned-adventurer who has spent the past year scouring the coast for debris belonging to flight MH370."If confirmed to have come from the plane, it will be the first evidence that a fire - possibly an electrical one - brought down MH370 rather than the actions of a suicidal pilot". If the Australian-led search effort in the Indian Ocean wraps up as scheduled later this year, discoveries like these will be all the evidence we have about MH370's ultimate fate, "yet the only person looking for them is a self-funded, amateur American enthusiast".Since becoming an adventurer, the former Seattle attorney has also travelled Ethiopia looking for the biblical Ark of the Covenant and studied the lost civilisations of South America."I was touched by the plight of the families," said the 58-year-old, who has no formal training in air crash investigation. "I just couldn't imagine how they felt, knowing nothing about their loved ones for a year... So I just decided, I'll go look for it for myself".
Gibson has found 13 suspected MH370 fragments that have washed up on East African beaches, including wing fragments, a piece of a seat and personal belongings of passengers, such as a bag and a laptop case.Meanwhile, a piece of debris found on a Tanzanian beach in June has been confirmed as a wing part belonging to missing Malaysian Airways flight MH370, Malaysian officials have said.
