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Apart, part by part, to look inside it to see what clues that can give away. they may well be able to tell us very soon whether this part belongs to mh-370 and perhaps even with further tests how the plane came to go down in the indian ocean. did this part come away from the plane in the air? did it come away on the sea? but they will not be able to tell us why. that will come from the flight data recorder. john, kate? >> how much of this early analysis is to link it to mh-370 and can that be do...

Malaysia night 370 has been carefully crated and put on a plane. the debris discovered on remote reunion island is now en route to france. it arrived saturday and by next week crash investigators will begin their intense examination. >> the accident investigators will want to have a look at the part to see whether it gives any indication as to the way in which it may have separated from the rest of the aircraft. >> reporter: by tuesday, cnn is told go teams from boeing and the ntsb will be at th...

France, and that is where investigators will be analyzing and determining whether this piece is from the missing malaysia airlines flight. all of this as officials express growing confidence this morning that the debris could be the first clue in solving one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history. >> one of the reasons investigators do believe this could be the real thing, this component number found on the object. it matches the schematic for a boeing 777 which, of course, is the same typ...

Component number on a schematic of a 777 and this online picture appears to be from a boeing maintenance manual. the debris was found off the coast of reunion island near madagascar off of africa here. when you look at the broader scheme of things its 2300 miles from the current search site and close to 4,000 miles from where mh-370 vanished on march 8th of last year. let me go first to reunion island with more on this piece of debris and tell me is it still there on the island or has it made it...

Perhaps, perhaps this is, indeed, a piece of that boeing 777. >> rene marsh for us is passing the eye test. it has a number which corresponds to a component number on a boeing 777 and also markings showing it could be a flaperon from one of the aircraft, the same aircraft that mh-370 used. theres no other boeing 777 that went down in the indian ocean so connect the dots there. our continuing coverage of this breaking news coming up. we will speak to a pilot who has flown a 777, can tell us about...

Flight 370, debris washed ashore today on a remote island off africa. it would be part of the investigation along with an apparent wing part that washed ashore on wednesday. were back with tom fuentes, peter goelz, and cnns aviation correspondent rene marsh. correct me if im wrong, theyre very, very clog to making a definitive announcement that at least the wing flap part is from your -- >> i think theyll get it back to toulouse, take it apart. confirm that the internal rental station parts and ...

After the incident. so it certainly has taken months to get across the ocean. but has it been sitting there in the waters for a month, six weeks, two days? absolutely. we dont know. >> shawn, when will they be able to -- they keep talking about looking at this. in the component number on this flaperon. i should back up and have you explain what a flaperon is and then the next question being how would they match it to a 777 and then match it to mh-370? >> okay. so the flaperon is one of the contr...

Officials at boeing say they have taken a lock ok at a compot number on this flaperon and with a high degree of certainty they believe its a 777. that coming from rene marsh. rene joins us right now. what more are you learning? >> reporter: john, this is different than what we had yesterday. yesterday a source close to the investigation saying that based on the photos in appearance, this piece looked like it was a part of a boeing 777, but now were seeing the bar raised a little bit here today. ...

This hour. just learned that boeing officials are confident the plane debris found off of reunion island is from a boeing 777. that is according to a source close to the investigation. they made this discovery by looking at a component number on the debris. >> lets talk to cnn aviation analyst and boeing 777 captain les abend. thanks so much for being with us. explain to us exactly what a component number is, what its for, and how they can be sure just by looking at that number that this is from...

Essentially make this decision to send this piece of a wing to a specific lab. you said off the top, it looks like things are moving towards france. this piece will be sent to a lab there. wolf, i have been on the phone all morning talking to some sources. yeday, the initial e in the difo assessment and the wording used is looking at the photo and looking at the images seen there on the screen, they believe this looked like a part of a 777. today, the language is a bit stronger. they say they se...