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On the inside as well. they may have to do some destructive testic and take it apart to see that. hopefully the boeing engineers are en route as well. the 777 was a wholly new redesigned plane, so this was a very unique development. if they have to take it apart, they will do a lot of testing and examining before they that do, but i think the boeing engineers will be able to identify it almost instantly. >> australian officials are saying the search area is not going to relocate. can you explain that to us? >> this has drifted across the ocean. the currents are such that it has to have come fr...

What do we know now? >> we have looked at the still photograph which shows the part number on this particular wing flap that we saw yesterday in which boeing engineers have already said is one of theirs. the part number is indeed from what is called a animaleron. a wing flap come possibly that helps the wing maintain a bank if it is at a high altitude. and then of course it allows it to slow down and make an approach. the bottom line is they know pretty conclusively this a boeing 777. there is only one missing. if this has been in the salt water all this time is there anything they can get for...

Talking to your sources who brought this information about this component number. what does this mean, this high level of confidence? >> reporter: well, kate and john, you definitely get the sense that investigators' confidence is rising. i want to just kind of set the full picture here. yesterday a source close to the investigation told me that based on the photos that boeing engineers had been looking at, based on the appearance and their knowledge of the eunique elements and design of a boeing 777's wing and components of the wing, their initial assess am was this appeared to be a part of a...

Design of a boeing 777, a portion of the wing, and now we're at the point where boeing engineers are now saying they believe they see a component number that may be a match to a boeing 777. so obviously that's a more tangible, that's stronger evidence that perhaps this could belong to a 777. of course, all of that being said, they are simply looking at photos at this point. what they want to do is look at it with their own eyes so that they are 100% sure that the numbers they're seeing in this photo is actually the true numbers indeed. but, again, the headline is it's not just about appearance...

Number settled on it. a source close to cnn has said that boeing engineers have cruelty niced the photos add all of that to the fact that only one 777 has crashed in this area of the world and remains missing, and that is mh370. so the piece of the plane that investigators have. rene, don't go too far away.