What is a flaperon? Flaperons are control surfaces on the wing of an aircraft that help to stabilize the plane during low-speed flying during take-off and landing.

MH370 Probe: What’s Next for the Flaperon? Officials are "increasingly confident" the debris comes from the missing jet.

MH370 Debris Confirmed The flaperon found washed up on a La Reunion Island beach was confirmed today to be part of the missing Malaysia Airlines 370 aircraft.

A flaperon from MH370 washed ashore in 2015. On March 8 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing. The Boeing 777 and its ...

Independent group says flaperon, likely from Boeing 777, probably came off while plane was hurtling toward sea.

What have they found? A flaperon appeared on Reunion last week, and was sent to France to be assessed by experts, and has now been verified as genuine.

Scientists thought the flaperon’s barnacles were a clue. Now, new evidence could turn them into a breakthrough.

It's been a month since that flaperon washed up on the shore of the island of La Réunion.

After weeks of speculation and thorough review, authorities have confirmed that the flaperon recently found on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is a part of MH370. The part’s serial number ...

As a result, the investigators have a "high degree of confidence" the part found on the island could be the right "flaperon" from the 777, CNN reported. So what is a flaperon and what does it do?