{"id":734,"date":"2015-07-29T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=734"},"modified":"2015-08-02T03:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T03:24:58","slug":"mh370-debris-very-likely-to-be-part-of-plane-but-does-it-solve-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"MH370: debris &#8216;very likely&#8217; to be part of plane \u2013 but does it solve mystery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"mh370\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The official leading the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has said debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is &#8220;very likely&#8221; to be part of the missing plane.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Dolan, who heads the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, told the BBC he was &#8220;increasingly confident&#8221; the piece of metal, about two metres square in size, was a &#8220;flaperon&#8221; from a Boeing 777.<br \/>\nThe only recorded case of a missing 777 flaperon, a wing component, is MH370, which disappeared in March last year on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>However, experts have voiced caution over suggestions the discovery would solve the mystery of what happened to the plane.<br \/>\nContinue: http:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/mh370\/57641\/mh370-major-lead-as-debris-washes-up-on-reunion-island<br \/>\nSource: The Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official leading the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has said debris washed up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,10,31,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",1200,675,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",1024,576,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",720,405,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mh370.jpg",480,270,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}