Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on Wednesday that the <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2015-07-31/wing-section-suspected-coming-mh370-boeing-777">piece of wing found washed ashore on Reunion Island</a> did come from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.&nbsp;The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014, after diverting from its intended flight path between Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.

 


An environmental worker found the ill-fated Boeing’s 777 flaperon on a beach in the town of Saint Andre on July 29. French authorities transported the debris over the weekend to an aeronautical laboratory in Toulouse, France, where a team of experts gathered this week to attempt to identify its source.

 


Located east of Madagascar, Reunion lies thousands of miles west of the current search zone in the southern Indian Ocean, west of Australia. But oceanographers believe ocean currents could have carried the debris that distance.

 


The conclusion that the flaperon came from MH370 supports the contention, based on radar and satellite data, that MH370 “turned back” from its flight path over the South China Sea and crossed the Malaysian peninsula on a westerly course. The loss of the aircraft led the International Aviation Safety Organization to require that airlines track their aircraft at regular intervals using available technology.

 


Malaysia has officially <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2015-01-29/disappearance-mh370-officially-declared-accident">declared the disappearance of MH370 an accident</a> and leads the investigation of its cause. Boeing, France’s BEA aviation accident investigation authority, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the U.S. National Transportation Safety&nbsp;Board also participate.

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