PARIS, July 30, 2015: A French law enforcement helicopter is scouring the waters around Reunion in hopes of spotting more debris like the piece of aircraft wing found on the island in the western Indian Ocean. A police official who was not authorised to speak about the search on the record said the goal is to “check if there are other pieces of the plane that would have been stranded on the shore”. David Ferreira, an oceanographer at the University of Reading, said the strong currents of the Indian Ocean could conceivably have pushed debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 several thousand kilometers (miles ) from the area where it was believed to have gone down. “On its own, this piece of debris will not do much to narrow down the search area by very much,” Ferreira said.
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