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Afar that this flaperon could have separated on the way down because there's no real depression damage, no real damage that would result from 500 or 600-mile-an-hour impact with the ocean, so it's very likely i think that it separated, but being able to, you know, trace back currents, it's impossible. the search is going to be painstaking and it's going to go on for months. >> peter, stay with me here. aaron mclaughlin is going to join us live from reunion island where the flaperon was found. this must have been the suspicion there, erin, obviously from the get go of folks who found this. you ...

Attached and came off in the air, what does that tell you about how the plane eventually crashed? >> well, what it would simply confirm is the flaperon would show what they call depression damage if it was still attached to the aircraft. i think both richard and miles are correct. i think this piece separated at some point in the final moments of flight and floated down by itself, because it simply doesn't show the kind of damage that it should have had it been still attached to the plane. >> richard, you want to add to that? just remind people what the flaperon does? >> it's literally flaps u...