Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was an international flight with 239 passengers that took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was en route to Beijing, China, but tragically disappeared from all radar systems on March 8, 2014.
The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 still continues over ten years later, as it has yet to be determined what led to the disappearance of Flight MH370.
Just a year after the tragic incident, a flaperon linked to MH370 was discovered clinging to barnacles that were washed ashore on Reunion Island, which is located on the coast of Africa.
Scientists now believe the barnacles could give them a new lead where MH370’s wreckage is located.
Scientists and researchers are attempting to decode the gooseneck barnacles called Lepas anatifera, which the MH370’s flaperon was found attached to back in 2015.
By decoding the information from the Lepas anatifera, researchers believe they can trace the path to the flaperon’s impact site.
Oceanographer David Griffin, tasked with finding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, shared, “We stumbled upon something that gave much more certainty about the plane’s whereabouts than we anticipated.”
New York Magazine on Twitter: “Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing 10 years ago and since then, searches have failed to discover the crash site. But the Lepas anatifera barnacle attached to floating debris offered new hope. https://t.co/5QHzvdsmCG / Twitter”
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing 10 years ago and since then, searches have failed to discover the crash site. But the Lepas anatifera barnacle attached to floating debris offered new hope. https://t.co/5QHzvdsmCG
