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Statement from the malaysia ministry of transport. on wednesday, investigators in france will try to determine if the debris is indeed part of that missing malaysia airlines flight. the piece that's called a flaperon arrived with a police escort to a lab near toulouse on saturday. the debris turned up this weekend on the shores of reunion, more than 2,000 miles away from the search zone. for more on the investigation, let's turn to our cnn correspondent david mulko live in hong kong at this hour. malaysia answering part of the question that this piece did belong to a boeing 777. how significan...

David, how soon could we see that preliminary report come out on whether this could be part of mh-370? >> george they're going to be doing this by the book, methodically with all of these international partners involved. down that list. french americans, chinese, malaysians as well. all working together. they do not want to make a mistake. remember this is the only thing they have. the only piece of physical evidence in more than 500 days. so the next couple of days are about getting together figuring out how they're going to proceed, and then on wednesday, that examination we expect to start....

They're going to do this in a very structured methodical, and sensitive way. fundamentally, this is a human tragedy and the families are counting on them to get it right. >> david, this investigation happening just outside toulouse france. but it's calling in experts really from all over the world. >> that's right, george. there's something else that just came in the statement that i really wanted to let you know. the malaysians are now reaching out to other countries around reunion island so we could assume maybe the island of mauritius, madagascar down the southeastern coast of africa. they ...

Or should there be a concerted effort to look for more debris? it appears that that is what the malaysians doing there now, beginning to move in that direction. >> david, you've been on this story since the beginning we will stay in touch with you for your insights and reporting live in hong kong, thank you so much. again what we know at this hour is that piece is part of a boeing 777. this is according to malaysian officials. so if it is indeed part of mh-370 it would be the first physical piece of evidence from that flight. simon simon simon simona has more. >> reporter: this crucial piece o...

While switching air space. the investigation has raised a lot of questions about how air traffic controllers communicate. david mulko takes a look at that story. >> reporter: cleared for takeoff. spoken hundreds of times a day. up in the control tower at hong kong international airport. as the plane climbs out, it's handed from the tow to the air traffic control center. responsible not just for the space around the airport, but for the entire region. each colored strip, each dat on the screen a piece of this delicate puzzle. >> she has to control the outbound traffic, the inbound traffic and t...