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So far their assessment has been based on photos, but it's not a matter of if, but when officials will get a closer look. tonight confidence is rising debris found on reunion island is that of a boeing 777, the same type of air krafl as malaysia airlines flight 370. a newspaper on the island publishing images of what it says with a debris with the component number stenciled on it. a source close to the investigation tells cnn boeing engineers have scrutinized photos and say there is a component number that that, quote, corresponds to a 777 part. >> there is a number on the parts, the 370 that ...

1200 boeing 777s flying around that same number, the serial number, if they could kind that, that's unique to this flight 370? >> right. absolutely. so far we don't have any information that they do have a serial number. what we do know is that component number that we've seen images of that's what they have. i've been explaining this all day today. essentially what that is, imagine you go to a department store, you get -- and this component number essentially tells you this goes here on the aircraft. that's all it simply is. it's not identifiable, so that's why we hadn't heard definitively i'...

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...

They haven't necessarily tharks number 657bb, is the component number. that's on all flaperons for all 777s or just this particular malaysian airlines flight 370 777? >> say you get something from the store and you have to put it together. you get an image that looks similar to what you saw on the screen there. to put it together you see part one, part two and part three. you use the numbers to affix whatever it is you are putting together. it's similar to that. you will have this maintenance manual with specific numbers that correlate to specific parts of the aircraft. that's what we are look...

Ago. the aircraft fragment is being transported to france. one thing investigators will be looking at is to see if this component number matches those from the missing wing of the plane. the fragment which resembles part of the a wing from a boeing 777 was located wednesday on the island of reunion. today search crews have recovered a damaged suitcase also on that same island. the french controlled idea land lies in the indian ocean near madagascar, thousands of miles from the original search zone off the coast of australia. earlier today by colleague spoke with sarah bajic whose boyfriend was...