INVESTIGATORS probing the disappearance of MH370 plan to dump replica debris into the sea in a bid to track its movement and find the crash site.
A wing flap, known as a flaperon, washed up on a beach on the French overseas territory of Reunion Island in the Southwestern Indian Ocean in July 2015.
Experts have now created replicas of the flap in order to study their movements in open water.
It is hoped the evidence can then be used to pinpoint more accurately the site of the crash and locate the bulk of the wreckage.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Greg Hood said six will be sent to Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Tasmania.
Scientists there will try to figure out whether wind or ocean currents have more effect on how they drift.
And if they can secure the funding, Hood said they plan to attach satellite beacons and set them adrift near the suspected crash site to track their movements.
Barnacles on another flaperon found in Tanzania in June are also being analysed for clues as to what area they might have come from.
(culled from www.thesun.co.uk)
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