Barnacles may help solve mystery of missing MH370 plane


The flaperon from MH370 that was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on July 29, 2015. – Reuters

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 analysed barnacles found on a flaperon – the moving part of a wing – which washed up on Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean.

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