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Originally Posted by RRxtar
cant help but put my tinfoil hat on and (while unlikely) think the wing segment was planted. the whole story is just too fucked up for one piece of wing washing up on a beach a year and a half later to be enough.
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What's so outlandish about it, though? A trip-7 is a big ass plane. It if crashed into the ocean (instead of ditching), it would have shattered into thousands of pieces. A flaperon is pretty hollow and would be relatively buoyant. Ocean currents being what they are would undoubtedly let some debris float into islands part way around the world. It's also quite feasible that other debris had found its way onto Reunion Island, but was never thought of being as a piece of the plane, so it was destroyed. The same story probably happened on other islands as well.