Tiny Sea Creatures Could Help Unravel Flight MH370's Mysterious Disappearance.

After the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, barnacles offer 'a potential breakthrough' in the search for its wreckage, reports WION:

These barnacles were discovered clinging to the initial piece of debris conclusively linked to MH370 — a flaperon bearing the distinctive marking '657 BB,' which washed ashore on Reunion Island, situated off the coast of Africa, a year following the event...

Scientists now posit that barnacles could provide invaluable insights into solving this mystery. These small creatures offer a unique biological record akin to the growth rings found in trees. Researchers speculate that by deciphering this information, it may be feasible to retrace the barnacles' trajectory along the flaperon, potentially leading investigators to the crash site.


This week the Independent also reported a new theory from a British pilot:

Simon Hardy believes that the Malaysian Airlines flight plan and technical log reveal last-minute changes to the cargo including an additional 3,000kg of fuel and extra oxygen that indicate Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah directed the plane 'to oblivion... It's a strange coincidence that the last engineering task that was done before it headed off to oblivion was topping up crew oxygen which is only for the cockpit, not for the cabin crew....'

Hardy also said that the flaperon found on Reunion Island indicates there was an active pilot until the end of the flight: 'If the flaps were down, there is a liquid fuel, then someone is moving a lever and it's someone who knows what they are doing. It all points to the same scenario.'

In a kind of rebuttal, long-time Slashdot reader Maury Markowitz suggests there's more innocent explanations for the extra fuel and oxygen, arguing that Hardy's theory 'sounds like yet more balonium from someone who likes being in the newspapers.'


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