A Key Piece of Maylasian Airline MH370, Found in 2017,

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Was Identified Last Month.


Blaine Gibson and Richard Godfrey, Debris Analysis - Main Landing Gear Trunnion Door Panel. Dropbox.com, Dec 12, 2022.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zryls2 ... ber%202022.pdf?dl=0

Quote:

(a) page 1:

(i) "On a sandy road on the Antsiraka Peninsula in Madagascar Blaine Gibson and a friend called Rija stopped at the home of a fisherman named Tataly on 17th November 2022. He had a large yard full of things he collected washed ashore from the sea. There were buoys and boat parts, but one
piece caught Rija's eye and he called Blaine over because it had a similar appearance to floating debris from MH370.

(ii) " * * * Madagascar is situated in the Indian Ocean at the latitudes where the South Equatorial Current interacts with the island. 4 items of MH370 debris have been found on the same beach on the Antsiraka Peninsula in Madagascar. The location was predicted by the University of Western Australia (UWA) oceanographic model.

"The debris item had barnacles on it when it was found. Tataly did not know what it was, and just said it came from the sea. His wife used it as a washing board. Except for the barnacles Tataly said the debris item was in the same condition as he found it in 2017.

(b) pages 3-4:

"The Antsiraka South Beach is exposed to the currents that flow from South to North between Madagascar and Nosy Boraha Island and according to local fishermen debris usually comes ashore on the Antsiraka South Beach.

"Tataly said he found the debris in March 2017 washed ashore on the beach near his home just after the tropical storm Fernando had passed by.

"Fernando developed far east in the Indian Ocean off the British Indian Ocean Territory on 3rd March 2017 and slowly proceeded South-West towards Madagascar.

(c) page 6: "The debris item is light weight and 1" thick (2.54 cm) 0with honeycomb sandwiched between white side and black side of the debris item].

(d) page 34:

"The level of damage with fractures on all [I would say BOTH sides] sides and the extreme force of the penetration right through the debris item lead to the conclusion that the end of the flight was in a high speed dive designed to ensure the aircraft broke up into as many pieces as possible. The crash of MH370 was anything but a soft ditching on the ocean.

"The combination of the high speed impact designed to break up the aircraft and the extended landing gear designed to sink the aircraft as fast as possible both show a clear intent to hide the
evidence of the crash.

"The recovered 370 floating debris speaks to how the plane crashed, and the oceanographic drift analysis speaks to where. Neither can tell us who was flying the aircraft or why.

(e) page 35: identifying, with a photo of same airplane, the "debris item" as "Main Landing Gear Trunnion Door Panel."

My comment:
(a)
(i) Other than the quotations above, there is no need to read text. Illustrations (pohotos and maps) in this report are self-explanatory.
(ii) Before today, Blaine Gibson was described in the Web as "wreck hunter" (eg, in www.airlineratings. com news). and Richard Godfrey as "British aerospace engineer" (eg, in www.dailytelegragh. com.au).

(b) "Madagascar is situated in the Indian Ocean at the latitudes where the South Equatorial Current interacts with the island."
(i) Republic of Madagascar (independent from France in 1960) is south of equator. See Madagascar Latitude and Longitude Map. Maps of World, undated
https://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/madagascar-lat-long.html
(ii) South Equatorial Current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Equatorial_Current
("are ocean currents in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean that flow east-to-west between the equator and about 20 degrees south. * * * the South Equatorial Current is driven directly by the trade winds which blow from east to west"))
(A) ocean current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current
, whose top map shows identical three-color ocean currents (red arrow = warm current; blue arrow = cold current; leaing black arrows unexplained).
(B) I fail to find -- in the Web much less in Wikipediua -- how warm a warm ocean current, or how cold a cold ocean current is. My belief is it (temperature) depends on where in a specific current the temerature is taken.
(C) I surmise that a black arrow in Wikipedia opages mean nearly constant temperature; For North or South Equatorial Current (in any of the three oceans" Pacific, Atlantic, Indian), either current are WARM (throughout; per Web).

Dorothee Bonhoure, Elizabeth Rowe, Arthur J Mariano, Edward H Ryan, The South Equatorial Current System. In Surface Currents in the Atalntic Ocean. University of Miami, undated.
https://oceancurrents.rsmas.miam ... uth-equatorial.html
(In the Atlantic Ocean: "The South Equatorial Current (SEC) is a broad, westward flowing current that extends from the surface to a nominal depth of 100 m. Its northern boundary is usually near 4°N, while the southern boundary is usually found between 15-25°S, depending primarily on longitudinal location and the time of the year. * * * The average temperature of the South Equatorial Current is about 26°-28°C near the surface and 22°-24°C at 100 m depth (Mayer and al, 1998). The annual cycle of temperature is relatively stable between March and September, the two seasonal extremes, with a variability of about 4°")

(c) About quotation (e).
(i) trunnion (n; "from [Modern] French [noun masculine] trognon stump"): "pin or gudgeon, especially either of two small cylindrical projections on [both sides of] a cannon forming an axis on which it pivots"  *accent on first syllable)
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Trunnion+
(ii) trunnion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion