KUWAIT: Dr. Nasser Mahmoud Al-Qattan, a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Kuwait University and a specialist in stable isotope geochemistry, with the participation of an international team of researchers from international universities in the United States of America and Ireland, published a global scientific research article on “solidification chronology and stable isotopes to track debris drift paths with application to the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The report was published in a scientific journal. Due to the importance of the research and its impact on the fate of the missing Malaysian plane (one of the largest aviation mysteries in the world), it gained the attention of National Geographic magazine, which in turn interviewed the researcher Al-Qattan and wrote an article on the pillars of the research, “Its results and future practical applications.”

In the research, Dr Nasser Al-Qattan stated that in July 2015, a piece of wing of an aircraft belonging to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 covered with marine crustaceans known as Lepas antifear appeared on one of the beaches of Reunion Island, more than a year after the disappearance of the aircraft. He concluded with specific recommendations to search for the missing aircraft.