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an island is a surprise itself. another month or two from now, we might have debris watch up on madagascar, which is a much bigger island further to the west, or maybe even the east coast of south africa. as the debris is coming around that gyre, as they pointed out, this this is just ha tiny speck of an island to have anything wash up. >> you agree, it's not necessarily a bat sign that they haven't found so far anything else? >> no, i don't think it's bad at all. i question whether the suitcase is part of this investigation or not. i think we were a little excited. some people when they saw it, but it would have drifted at a much different rate than the flanneren. >> a lot of people have suggested these two pieces of supposed debris, the flaperon and suitcase very different. it would be a huge coincidence if they both wound up at the same spot. that's why a lot of people are
are linked to mh370 that would rather strengthen the case that we are in the right area, but it didn't prove it conclusively. >> ocean graphers we have spoken with say there's no magic bullet. they say that it does officer very important clues, but added that the debris doesn't move on a smooth trajectory because of the turbulence and various storms that could have altered the path of this debris. wolf? >> thank you, pamela brown. i want to bring it cnn's tom foreman. he's been looking at the flaperon, the piece of wing, the clues it may reveal. what are you finding out? >> the front end of this does does not seem to have as much -- there are several theories as to why that could be the case. if we take about a plane that was way up in the air in a high-speed dive because it either ran out of fuel or somebody pointed it down, the flaperon would normally be
along with her medical records and e-mails. is there anything in the pile of paperwork that could potentially could when university her presidential bid? trump's tough talk. he's now telling cnn how you get mexicans to pay for a wall at the border and how he'd earn the respect of russia's vladimir putin. substance or bluster? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news tonight as wreckage that could help solve the mystery of mh-370 is flown to france. cnn has now learned u.s. investigators are heading there as well. officials from the ntsb and boeing will help analyze the wing part that washed ashore on a remote island. there's growing evidence it came from a woeing 777, another denting fying number on the debris was just discovered.
news. a piece from the wing of what investigators now believe is a boeing 777 has been parked for shipping, put on a plane to france, due to arrive early saturday. the aircraft part washed up. lab tests may determine when it came from the malaysian airliner that disappeared almost a year and a half ago with 239 people on board. our aviation correspondent rene marsh has been working her stories, getting new information. what are el learning? >> tonight we are learning that a second identifying number found on the airplane part that was discovered at reunion island, sources are saying that this boeing engineer, they essentially saw a number on the photos of the debris, photos that you're looking at there. this number is an 11-digit number. that number is also consistent with a boeing 777. if you remember yesterday, we showed you a different image
that show the a code number. 657bb, a code number. that is also on the debris that was taken away from reunion island. so this number, coupled with that 11-digit number, both on this piece of debris, so that means there are two sets of identifying numbers here now that links this piece of debris to a boeing 777. a lot more -- learning more than we did yet. that's very telling. you have two identifying numbers there, and there's no question that they belong to a boeing 777. >> belongs to a boeing 777. this is the only boeing 777 that's mysteriously disappeared, so the assumption is even though they haven't found the serial number that could directly pinpoint it to the may lashia aircraft, they are pretty convinced this is from that plane. >> right. what else could it be? as you mentioned mh370, the only
found this piece of debris in the early days when there was such a wide-scale search conducted? >> remember, in the early days they were searching in entirely different places. first the south china sea, then eventually they made their way down to an area much farther north from where they are right now. so in the key days when that wreckage would have been near where the impact was, they were looking elsewhere, including in a different ocean. >> which is a good point, peter. also, there have been two, two full-scale typhoons in that indian ocean area since that plane disappeared. and that could have had a huge impact on anything that might have been floating around. >> exactly. this is, remember, seven feet long. if you're looking for a piece that small in the ocean, it's very difficult to find. you're flying at 150 knots, 300 or 400 feet over the ocean. very tough to find. >> what does it mean now there's
777. the piece is now en route to france, where experts will confirm its origin, and a potential link to the flight which disappeared almost a year and a half ago oy our correspondents are in key locations as are expert analysts, including the head of the naacp, cornel william brooks. let's begin with the latest. pamela brown is standing by with the latest, now at the center of this mh370 investigation. >> tonight officials are say they're all but certain the debris that washed up along the shores of reunion island came from a 777, ands intelligence agencies are taking a new look at the pilot and the flight path for important clues as to what happened. >> this flaperon believed to be from a 777 aircraft is en route to france in a large protected
>> we believe the debris is on its way to paris, expected to arrive early on saturday morning, but of course the certain here continues. the fog at point continues to be that stretch of land out in -- the theory that many investigators are working on if it's indeed mh370 getting a better sense of the current that brought it here could give a better sense of where a new potential area of search could be, taking it even that southeastern coast of africa. so they're looking very closely to see what else turns up, what else is out there, but also to get a better sense of that current, this all while the volcano, believe it or not is erupting. they're having to deep with an evacuation of the upper slopes beyond those of those living in
plane is some 2,300 miles away. australian officials in charge of the search operation made it clear there are no plans to divert assets from that area to reunion island because of this one piece of debris. they remain confident that the area they're searching is where the plane went down. so they're staying in that area, wolf. >> rene, thanks very much. as crash investigators quernlg on a french lab to study that critical wing part, what do they hope to learn if they confirm the wreckage came from flight 370? tom foreman taking a closer look at this part of the investigation. what are you seeing, tom? >> wolf, our own air aviation analysts have been looking at this piece and they noted the front end of this is not nearly as damaged as the trailing edge of the flaperon. and that could tell them something. and this is how. if we're talking about the plane being in a high-speed dive, say it was flying along at cruising altitude 500 miles an hour, the flaperon would be in this position relative to the wing.