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Investigators have confirmed that two debris pieces found since December match Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Scarpe Uomo Nike Air Presto Nere Saldi , which disappeared more than two years ago in March 2014.
The finding is a helpful step in what has become the most high-profile plane search of this century, but oceanographers doubt it will assist the investigators still combing the ocean floor for signs of a plane crash.
"It's not only ocean currents, because it's on the ocean floor, it's also winds and waves, so you need to be able to model three things correctly," says Luca Centurioni Scarpe Donna Nike Air Presto Nere Saldi , a scientist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. "And we just cannot do it."
The pieces, found Dec. 27, 2015, and Feb. 27, 2016, were found at random on the coast of Mozambique. Both "almost certainly" originated with the Malaysia Airlines flight Scarpe Donna Nike Air Presto Bianche Saldi , the Australian Transport Safety Bureau announced Tuesday.
Australia's investigators used the unique text on the debris pieces to determine their origin, the BBC reported. The text "NO STEP" and "676EB" match that of Malaysia Airlines planes, and no other Boeing 777 has been known to crash – or spontaneously fall apart – in that part of the world.
Identifying these two debris findings, even without the third confirmed piece, prove the plane crashed into the ocean, tragically killing the 239 passengers flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Scarpe Nike Air Presto QS Bianche Saldi , but they offer very little insight into the crash site.
"When we model particle motions on a computer, we're trying to use 100,000 or a million," says Sarah Gille, an oceanographer at the University of California San Diego. "Three [debris pieces] is really small."
While theories abound about how this could impact the international search for remains, the truth is as murky as the ocean waters where the search has gone on for months. Maps describing ocean floor topography in general Scarpe Uomo Nike Air Presto Safari Nere Gialle Saldi , and the part of the Indian Ocean where the plane crashed in particular, are less detailed than those of the planet Mars, NOAA researchers Walter Smith and Karen Marks wrote for the American Geophysical Union.
Scientists from around the world have been battling the elements and international diplomacy to locate the plane, but the debris does not offer a path back to the MH370 crash site.