Malaysian Airline Flight 370, a Boeing 777, has been missing for over a year now. The said flight that was bound for Beijing took off in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. The missing plane carried 239 passengers, 153 of them Chinese nationals.
A certain US intelligence said that there is a possibility that the plane deliberately flew off-course.
The Malaysian Airline Administration released a statement regarding the accusation, saying: "There are no behavioral signs of social behavior, change in habits or interest, drug or alcohol abuse of the captain, first officer, and the cabin crew."
The mysterious disappearance of the MH370 baffled the whole world. After almost a year and a half of drawing blanks, a debris that can possibly be a flapperon of a Boeing 777 was found in the small island of Reunion near the coast of Madagascar. The remains were found by Johnny Begue while they were conducting a coastal clean-up on the said island.
"I told myself, 'it's a debris', and we walked closer to see better, it was a wing," said Begue in his interview with CNN.
The discovery of the wing may help shed some light to the investigation being led by the Australian Government.
"This is obviously a very significant development. It's the first real evidence that there's a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found," said Warren Truss, Australian Deputy Prime Minister.
The discovered "flapperon" will be flown from Reunion to France for further scrutiny in order to know if the debris is indeed a part of the missing plane, and consequently, to learn how the MH370 crashed.
"You examine the fractures and tears under a microscope and see if it's torn off a certain way," Goelz said. "From that you may be able to tell if the plane crashed nose first or flat," like a belly flop.
The families of the victims are tired of hearing maybes and what ifs, they said on a phone interview conducted by the Washington Post.
"This kind of news happens quite often," said Steven Wang, whose mother is among the missing. "It still needs to be verified and confirmed by not only one party," he added. "Then I can be convinced."
Until then, Wang said, he "still has a glimmer of hope."
