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Finally official. results are now in. that piece of airplane last week in the indian ocean is indeed part of malaysian flight 370. that's the flight that mysteriously vanished more than a year ago. in france where the investigation is still underway. catherine, what you can tell me? >> what i can tell you greta, is there were two parts of the investigation which helped the actual overall investigation get to this decision today. one was that the boeing aircraft company provided information on this particular part of the wing that had been washed up as the reunion island in the indian ocean. bo...

Apart, part by part, to look inside it to see what clues that can give away. they may well be able to tell us very soon whether this part belongs to mh-370 and perhaps even with further tests how the plane came to go down in the indian ocean. did this part come away from the plane in the air? did it come away on the sea? but they will not be able to tell us why. that will come from the flight data recorder. john, kate? >> how much of this early analysis is to link it to mh-370 and can that be done with something as simple as a part number or some kind of component number? and how much of it is...

Everyone wants right at the top is, does this flaperon belong to mh-370? we know that it's from a 777 aircraft and of course we know there is no other 777 aircraft missing in the world right now. this is, of course, one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. but they don't want to just say that by a process of elimination. they want a direct link between the flaperon that was brought here over the weekend in a sealed container to mh-370. so what kind of experiments are they going to be running right now? they've agreed on what they're going to do over the last two days. of course, eve...

Confirmed that it is from a 777 aircraft. but, christi, that's not to say that it is definitely from mh-370. and this is the lab that i'm at here in toulouse in the south of france. the dga. it's run by the french minister of defense where those folsom arms that erin mentioned should be cleared. so they've said that it is from a 777 aircraft. they haven't said it's from mh-370. what will happen now is members of the united states, ntsb, malaysian officials and we're told now chinese officials, too, joining this group, and the french authorities will come to this lab, and they're saying that th...

A photo shows a twisted piece of metal with chinese characters seem to be could be some sort of brand i branding signature on it. authorities looking at it. analyzing it. beyond that being very tight lipped. they're not speculating as to whether or not it could be a plane part or if it's, in fact, suspected of being a part of mh-370. we're noting this is a tiny island surrounded by a very big ocean. lots of plane debris out there. lots of room for false alarms. >> very good point to make. erin mclaughlin, we appreciate it. the investigation is focusing on the debris in toulouse, france. simon,...