JD-EE and Matelo,
Understood. Then I have to question why the piece of "debris" is on its way to France?????? I would have imagined that the AF447 crash investigators would have been all over this piece of whatever-it-is shortly after its discovery. Would they not have gone to Guyana to examine it? And, if so, wouldn't they have known pretty much with certainty that it is, or is not, a piece of AF447?
It just seems odd that the debris, from whatever it is, was loaded onto a ship headed for France. On the other hand, if it is a piece of an Adriane craft I suppose they wouldn't mind having that back either.