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Any more debris inside or at least just off the coast of reunion. that piece of wing flap, a flaperon it's called, discovered yesterday by people who were clearing the beach of rubbish or trash. they found that piece of debris. they brought it ashore, they let the authorities know. those authorities then distributed the word that they'd found something that looked to be a part of an aircraft, and ever since then the news has been coming in that, yes, it does look like a boeing 777. the prime minister from malaysia stating it is highly likely to be a boeing 777, the boeing 777, and we have just...

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...

Matching it up to what the body camera says and it just doesn't lie. so if you can mitigate and lessen what he's looking at here i think, you know, of course you do him a great justice but the justice that needs to be done at this point, of course is for that victim and his family. >> joey jackson, ed davis, thanks to you both. i appreciate it. still to come in the "newsroom," a plain's wing flap found on the beach of an island in the indian ocean but will this major lead help determine what happened to flight 370? [ male announcer ] you wouldn't ignore signs of damage in your home. are you ...

239 people on board in march of 2014. some 500 days ago. the debris apparently a flaperon from a wing found on reunion island. that is 2,300 miles from where the plane is believed to have gone down. at least that's where they have been searching. cnn correspondent robyn kriel is there on reunion island and joins us with the latest. good morning, robyn. >> reporter: good morning, john. yes, reunion island a french island about a population of just under 1 million people and abuzz with the news it could be the piece of what looks to be a wing flap. a flap there iseron. the piece of the missing p...

This small piece of the wing flap doesn't give you any important information about why this plane disappeared. was it intentional act of a deranged pilot, some strange mechanical problem. we still got a long way to go on this. >> just for context, it's 6.5 feet by 8 feet. described as fairly intact. no visible burn marks or signs of impact. bob, as you talk about the disappearance theories and you mentioned one there about hijacked and landed somewhere else. this, if connected narrows down what the disappearance theories could actually be what caused it to go down sglt takes it either to the i...