This find, if proven to be MH370, must give great heart and new inspiration to continue, to the ATSB and the people on the Fugro search ships - who must have had pretty low morale up to this point, with absolutely nothing relevant appearing in the search up, until now. Multiple books and numerous "experts" pursuing wild theories have not helped.
The general indications, from past wreckage finds on Reunion and Madagascar, seem to indicate that this find would tend to point to a crash location more in the North of the current search zone.
A deep Southern Indian Ocean crash location would have more likely seen the flaperon wash up on the coast of Western Australia.
biilslugg - I would expect that surface winds play a major factor in flotsam movement, rather than the actual sea currents. A small wrecked boat lost from the North-West of Western Australia found its way to Reunion Island in recent times - and a lifeboat containing a body, from the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, lost about 130NM off Carnarvon, W.A., in Nov 1941, was washed up on Christmas Island some 8 mths later.
Last edited by onetrack; 30th Jul 2015 at 03:48.