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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. we're back with tom fuentes, peter goelz, and cnn's aviation correspondent rene marsh. correct me if i'm wrong, they're very, very clog to making a definitive announcement that at least the wing flap part is from your -- >> i think they'll get it back to toulouse, take it apart. confirm that the internal rental station parts and probably make an announcement sometime tomorrow. >> you agree with that assessment. >> i would ...

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 don't 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 control surfaces of the airplane. it's part of the surface that moves on the wing or other parts of the ...

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 it's 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 we're seeing the bar raised a little bit here today. a source is telling me a couple minutes ago that based on these photos, investigators or engineers...

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. >> let's 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 it's for, and how they can be sure just by looking at that number that this is from a boeing 777. >> well, my understanding of what acomponent number, it corresponds to that particu...

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 see a component number that correlates with a 777 part. that is more tangible. that is evidence that s...