LocationConfirmed
Saint-Denis, Réunion
Flaperon find · 29 July 2015
First physical evidence of 9M-MRO, 16 months after disappearance.
French territory in the western Indian Ocean. Drift models use this arrival time to weight 7th-arc latitudes.
Sources
- French judiciary / Malaysian Item 1
Related
EvidenceConfirmed29 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
Right flaperon — Réunion
Found 29 July 2015 · confirmed 3 September 2015 as 9M-MRO
TimelineConfirmed29 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
Right flaperon found on Réunion
29 July 2015
DocumentOfficial finding1 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
CSIRO debris-drift studies
Griffin, Oke, et al. · 2016–2017