A stall speed for zero flaperon deflection is not given. Pilots who have flown the Kitfox IV indicate that it has reasonable stall characteristics without the tendency to drop a wing during the exercise. |
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said a maintenance seal on the flaperon matches the airline's records, though he didn't elaborate. |
Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said tests in France had made this link with a recentlydiscovered flaperon from an airplane wing. |
Mr Truss told a press conference that a number stamped on the flaperon could be used to quickly identify whether it is from the missing plane. |
A flaperon appeared on Reunion last week, and was sent to France to be assessed by experts, and has now been verified as genuine. |
Experts have said the two-metre object washed up on a beach could be a moveable piece of a Boeing 777's wing, called a flaperon. |