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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-...

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...

Of the aircraft wing, and the same component number 657bb, that appears on the debris. the flaperon is what analysts say they believe they have, but does it belong to ma-370. officials in charge of the search acknowledge the race is on to rule the part in or out. >> the french authorities with advisory authorities to do this as quickly as possible, and we are hope something could be done in the next 24 to 48 hours. >> the pilot's last words before the passenger jet vanished en route to beijing? march of 2014, with 239 people on board. while officials publicly express cautious confidence, behin...

Alongside him jeff wise author of "fatal descent" and on the phone former ntsb investigator greg feith. greg, we just heard there from bill neely that the officials did not definitively say what it was about this flapperon, about this part from the plane allowing them to identify it as being from mh-370. can you speculate what you think they saw there except for one missing 777 in the world? >> luke, they probably used not only that number that's been publicized for the last week, the 657bb, because there are four parts or four panels to that one flapperon. and they're numbered. 657bb, cc, dd ...