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Boeing has confirmed that the piece of wreckage is a wing part called a "flaperon," and that the serial number found on it belongs to a Boeing 777 aircraft, CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reported.

More than a year after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, there is renewed hope that the missing flight may have been found. This week ...

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The plane debris that washed ashore on the French island of La Reunion is believed to be a part of a wing called a flaperon, Doane reports. Its dimensions are consistent with a Boeing 777 aircraft.

The flaperon may shed light on what kind of stress the plane endured as it hit the ocean, but it's unlikely to tell us much about the reason the aircraft failed in the first place.

Q) Surely “when”, not “if” - since one flaperon has been found, there must be more debris? Not necessarily floating on the surface of the ocean. Most aircraft parts will sink.

A piece of aircraft debris that washed up on an Indian Ocean island is believed to be a flaperon, possibly from a ing 777, though authorities say it is too early to know whether the part comes from ...

"It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this," Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told Reuters.

The aircraft part was spotted by workers cleaning a beach at Saint-André in the east of Réunion, who did not immediately realise the debris could be a significant lead in the search for MH370.