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Move this distance. so the search area is where it started. this is where it ended many. looking for more debris in this possible landfall is probably the next best thing, and really this is the first evidence of the plane. >> les, if this is confirmed as a piece of flight 370, it would rule out some conspiracy theories, such as that it was hijacked. what can investigators learn specifically from the wing flap in terms of what happened? >> well s. if you look at the wing at the flaperon itself, jake, it's impossible to determine whether it's a high speed or low speed, whether it was a high ang...

Flight 370 using a serial number which may or may not still be on that part. highlighted here on a boeing 777 the part is believed, by many experts, to be this moving piece from the back of the wing. flight 370 took off after midnight on march 8th, 2014 and last seen on radar at 2:14 a.m. local time. this wreckage was found on reunion island 600 miles off of madagascar's eastern coast, but that's over 4,000 miles from the jet's last-known low call south of vietnam. it's also thousands of miles from where investigators have been searching for the boeing jet off of australia's western coast. oce...

Number and serial number. >> but that's missing in the photographs we have, so how are investigators going to tie the debris these found bag to mh flight 370. >> this is actual pictures from reunion itself. with the data plate missing, they can try to use other part number that may be found. >> other rene marsh were talking about numbers found on the surface of there flaperon. you were pointing on the something as well. this certainly distinguishes as a part of being from a boeing 777. walk us through what we have here. >> another picture here. every airplane part is different on how it attach...

However, the surface debris, if this is found to be the debris from mh-370, the surface search could now shift along a linear course that would follow the currents. it would be a monumental task at this point. >> let's go back to this piece of debris. what are the -- what are most of the -- what's the most optimistic reading of what we could possibly determine about the crash just from this one piece? >> well, unfortunately, about all you can determine is the gee om tri of the impact or what happened to the airplane immediately before it had the impact. it's still moves us no closer to determi...

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 ...