MH370 Plane Mystery May Be Solved With Help of Barnacles
New research suggests the aircraft may have drifted “far south” of where previously thought.
Photographer: Yannick Pitou/AFP/Getty Images
This article is for subscribers only.
Barnacles found on a piece of plane debris might hold the key to discovering what happened to MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014.
MH370 might have drifted “far south” of where previous models have speculated, according to research published in AGU Advances, which analyzed barnacles found on a flaperon, the moving part of a wing. The plane part washed up on Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, a year after the disappearance.