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Do not fill this in! ===Flap and further search=== On 24 June 2016, Australian transport minister [[Darren Chester]] said that a piece of aircraft debris had been found on [[Pemba Island]], off the coast of [[Tanzania]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Potential MH370 debris found on island off African coast|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/potential-mh370-debris-found-on-island-off-african-coast/2016/06/24/21f62326-3a13-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html|archive-date=25 June 2016|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=Associated Press|date=24 June 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625123911/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/potential-mh370-debris-found-on-island-off-african-coast/2016/06/24/21f62326-3a13-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html}}</ref> It was handed over to the authorities so that experts from Malaysia could determine its origin.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/07/01/suspected-mh370-debris-to-be-analysed-in-tanzania/ |title=Suspected MH370 debris to be analysed in Tanzania |agency=Agence France-Presse |publisher=Star Media Group Berhad |website=The Star Online |date=1 July 2016 |access-date=2 July 2016 |archive-date=7 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707015435/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/07/01/suspected-mh370-debris-to-be-analysed-in-tanzania/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On 20 July, the Australian government released photographs of the piece, which was believed to be an outboard [[Flap (aeronautics)|flap]] from one of the aircraft's wings.<ref>{{cite news|last1=McBride|first1=Brian|title=New Photos Show Wing Flap Believed to Be From Missing MH370|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/photos-show-wing-flap-believed-missing-mh370/story?id=40725539|access-date=20 July 2016|publisher=ABC News Internet Ventures|website=[[ABC News]]|date=20 July 2016|archive-date=21 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721115956/https://abcnews.go.com/International/photos-show-wing-flap-believed-missing-mh370/story?id=40725539|url-status=live}}</ref> Malaysia's transport ministry confirmed on 15 September that the debris was indeed from the missing aircraft.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Malaysia-confirms-debris-found-in-Tanzania-is-from-MH370/articleshow/54346577.cms |title=Malaysia confirms debris found in Tanzania is from MH370 |agency=Agence France Presse |website=Times of India |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd |date=15 September 2016 |access-date=15 September 2016 |archive-date=9 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209174922/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Malaysia-confirms-debris-found-in-Tanzania-is-from-MH370/articleshow/54346577.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> On 21 November 2016, families of the victims announced that they would carry out a search for debris in December on the island of [[Madagascar]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38047793 |title=MH370 relatives to search for debris in Madagascar |website=BBC News |date=21 November 2016 |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122055541/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38047793 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 30 November 2018, five pieces of debris recovered between December 2016 and August 2018 on the Malagasy coast, and believed by victims' relatives to be from MH370, were handed to Malaysian transport minister [[Loke Siew Fook|Anthony Loke]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Palin |first1=Megan |title='Massive breakthrough': Flight MH370 'crashed violently' |url=https://www.cairnspost.com.au/travel/massive-breakthrough-flight-mh370-crashed-violently/news-story/977695d66a18b10a4fe37577fc4ce62f |access-date=2 December 2018 |work=Cairns Post |date=1 December 2018}}</ref> [[Texas A&M University]] mathematics professor [[Goong Chen]] has argued that the plane may have entered the sea vertically; any other angle of entry would make the aircraft splinter into many pieces, which would have been found already.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.tamu.edu/~goong.chen/mh370.pdf|title=Some comments, questions and answers regarding MH370 (related to the recent work by G. Chen et al.)|website=Math.tamu.edu|access-date=12 March 2019|archive-date=28 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228224915/https://www.math.tamu.edu/~goong.chen/mh370.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/21/us/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-theories/|title=MH370 possibly plunged straight into ocean, expert says|author=Michael Martinez|author2=Don Melvin|date=30 July 2015|website=Cnn.com|access-date=25 May 2021|archive-date=5 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005170620/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/21/us/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-theories/|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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