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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 done with something as simple as a part number or some kind of component number? and how much of it is...

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 the lab in that lose, france, site of the analysis. this component number, 657-bb, corresponds to a 77...

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 type of plane asm h-370. while that's going on a u.s. intelligence assessment believes that it was like...

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 it's 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 its wa i to france yet? >> reporter: we are awaiting for information to hear that it headed to the so...

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. there's 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 a flaperon and tell us about this component number. this breaking news, boeing officials very conf...