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657bb, that's bravo bravo connecting it directly to boeing. but talk about how we have the piece and the fragment with french investigators also a main search site with investigators in australia and how are they all telegraphing the process now of using reunion island as a ground zero for leading to more clues? >> reporter: this is multinational as you say. there were investigators here from malaysia france australia, boeing chinese officials. you have oceanographers helping with this trying to predict the currents and indeed they have been proved right. many of them said you can see an anti-...

The wing flap 657 bb but that identified as a part from a boeing 777. they'll look for any other serial numbers or paint that could identify it. each airline uses its own specific paint and numbers. so can we pin this to malaysian airlines? the second big question much much harder to work out, they'll be using a machine that can magnify up to 100,000 times to look at the damage on that aircraft part to see if there are rips and tears that might indicate the speed that was going out and that might tell us is the fuselage largely intact or did the whole thing simply disintegrate on impact. one o...

That might have identified that as coming from mh-370. there was one number on that piece of wing flap 657bb that identified it as coming from boeing but not from mh-370. the other identifier could have been paint. every airline uses a unique paint on its aircraft and looking for paint fragments to be visible after 17 months in the sea that might have identified it. we don't know exactly what it was that made them conclude it was from mh-370. again, that's maybe what the paris prosecutor will say. so you know this is -- it's stunning news but in one sense it's not surprising if that makes sens...

Reunion last week. we know that part is from a boeing triple 7. the expert will have two questions to answer. is it from mh-370 and is there anything on it that might be able to tell us how or why that aircraft crashed. the first of those questions will be the easier to answer. the experts will be looking for a serial number or for paint on that wing flap that might help identify if it's from mh-370. there was a serial number on there. that's 657 bb. that's identified as being a boeing part. is there something else that will tell us it's from mh-370 because each manufacturer has special paint ...

We need to be sure of the facts. and let me just quickly run you through what we know about this flaperon this piece of debris found on reunion island. we know there is marking on it a spence ill that says 657 bb. we ne that is a an apparent match for the schematics on the part of the right wing for a boeing triple 7. there is a missing number plate that appears to not be on that piece. we have seen newer versions of the flaperon that have the number on the plate. there are barnacles consistent with something that's been in the water 16 months. another point made by investigators, there are no...