Debris - Reunion Island

This morning a debris (looks like part of an aircraft flap) find on Reunion Island was reported. Dr. Richard Cole brought the picture below to my attention via the JW blog. A Twitter poster compared it to a B777 flaperon.

The comparison looks very compelling to me. Reunion Island is East of Madagascar off the East coast of Africa. News reports claim the debris was found on the West coast of Reunion Island. See map below (Ignore red rings, they are range rings unrelated to this debris finding).

The burning question is if this flap belonged to MH370.

Let's suppose for a moment that it is from MH370. The next question is where did it come from? I offer the diagram of the Thermohaline Circulation below for your consideration. The red path is a surface current and the blue path is a deep current.

As the diagram shows, the surface current flows past Christmas Island North of Australia and past the West Coast of Reunion Island (between Reunion Island and Madagascar).

I think that is interesting.  I anxiously await the analysis of this debris find.