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It's July 29th, 2015, on a reunion island off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.

Johnny Begg, a 46-year-old municipal worker, walks the sandy beach alongside other members of

his cleanup crew. It's monotonous work keeping the beaches clean, but they do their best to have fun with it.

Soon enough, Johnny's crew stops to take a break. As they laugh and joke,

Johnny keeps walking, picks up a smooth rock from the sand,

and tosses it out into the ocean. As Johnny watches the rocks skip across the water,

he's brought out of his revery by the sounds of his crewman shouting for his attention.

It turns around and sees them holding a strange six-foot-long object like a jagged rectangle.

Johnny runs back to get a closer look. His crewman grunt and grown as they lift the unusual object

off the ground so they can examine it further. As Johnny slowly walks around the object,

it dawns on him what he's looking at. It's part of an airplane,

and immediately Johnny's mind begins to race with questions.

How did it end up here? What in the world happened to the rest of the plane?

But soon Johnny will learn the truth that he's just discovered the first piece of physical

evidence in one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

Not long after Johnny and his crew find the strange object, authorities identify its source.

They reveal that the piece of wreckage belongs to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370,

a commercial jet that suddenly and inexplicably vanished over one year prior.

The evidence Johnny discovered seems to indicate that the missing plane crashed,

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