Originally Posted by
atakacs
Just wondering: assuming (big if) it can be traced to mh370 - would that give us any further clue as of where to search the aircraft, except somewhere in the Indian Ocean?!
It would seem to indicate that the search is probably in the right general area. As mentioned above, the current from that area should eventually take any floating debris through the area where this was found.
Beyond that, I'd imagine the variation of current and debris behaviour is so large that you couldn't really improve the accuracy of the current search.
Edit: I guess one possibility is that the damage might help determine how the aircraft hit the sea, which might help reduce the search area. For example, whether it hit in an uncontrolled impact, or whether it might have been flown down by someone in the cabin. One of the big issues for the search is not knowing how far from the final 'ping' the aircraft might have flown before it came down.