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Airline were missing and presumed dead. if this does indeed turn out to be a flaperon or a piece of the missing boeing 777, several questions. how did it end up so far off course and how did it crash? if it turns out to be a piece of the missing plane, those will be answered in the coming days for families in the agonizing wait. john the australian deputy prime minister addressing the media saying that they were being cautious at this stage and they could not confirm it was indeed a major lead. here's what he had to say. >> this is obviously a very significant development. it's the first real ...

>> reporter: this piece of debris is about seven feet long, three or four feet wide and we're now told it is consistent with what you would find on a 777 made by boeing. let's bring up a model of the missing plane and talk about where you would find it on the plane. our aviation analysts say it would likely be on the backside of the left wing, right in here. a controlling flaperon as they call it. so it meets the first part of a test for the match. it is the right type of piece to find and the right color, condition. it has barnacles on it. it is something consistent in the water for 500 day s...

With the very latest starting now. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. we do want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the breaking news right now. a possible turning point. a major development in the hunt for missing flight 370. a piece of debris on the shore of an island in the western indian ocean appears to be from a boeing 777. a boeing 777, the same model of mh-370 with 239 people on board in march of 2014. the debris is a flaperon from a wing. it was found on reunion island. it 2,300 miles where the plane is believed to ...

For missing flight 370. sources close to cnn tell us that a piece of debris on the remote shore in the western indian ocean appears to be from a 777. the same 777 that disappeared in march of 2014. that piece of debris apparently a flaperon. a flap from the wing found on reunion island. that is 2,300 miles from the area where the plane is believed to have gone down. cnn's robyn kriel is on reunion island. not easy to get to. robyn, we are lucky to have you there. what's the latest? >> reporter: john, the island is abuzz with the possible discovery. it has been a mystery the world has been wait...

Breaking news. a major developments in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. a piece of debris found in the indian ocean. we have cnn's tom foreman with how it could be from the missing jet. >> reporter: this piece of debris is seven feet long and three or four feet wide and we're now told it is consistent with what you would find on a 777 made by boeing. let's bring up a model of the missing plane and talk about where you would find it on the plane. our aviation analysts say it would likely be on the back side of the left wing right in here. a controlling flaperon as they call ...