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Welcome back. if malaysia airline officials thought finding a piece of mh-370 would bring closure, they were wrong on a number of fronts. french officials say it's too soon to know whether that piece is conclusively from the airplane. family members of the passengers say one piece of debris doesn't change a thing. >> reporter: what does such a tiny piece of debris mean, she asks. why are they trying to fool us, to make us take the compensation money. >> but there may be another piece of this puzzle emerging as another piece of wreckage. we are outside the french lab where that first wing flap ...

Prosecutor overseeing the investigation of the plane debris on the island said this. >> we can tell you today that we can very strongly presume that the wing flap found on one of the beaches in reunion belonged to a 777 boeing from malaysia airlines that disappeared in march 2014. >> australian officials just released this animation showing a drift analysis of how crash debris might have spread across the indian ocean over the course of the last 17 months. this evening the new york times reports a person involved in the investigation said that experts from boeing and the national transportatio...

That might have identified that as coming from mh-370. there was one number on that piece of wing flap 657bb that identified it as coming from boeing but not from mh-370. the other identifier could have been paint. every airline uses a unique paint on its aircraft and looking for paint fragments to be visible after 17 months in the sea that might have identified it. we don't know exactly what it was that made them conclude it was from mh-370. again, that's maybe what the paris prosecutor will say. so you know this is -- it's stunning news but in one sense it's not surprising if that makes sens...

Investigating the wing flap and based upon what the experts have announced, we can tell you today that we can very strongly presume presume that the wing flap found on one of the beaches in reunion belonged to a 777 boeing from malaysia airlines that disappeared in march 2014. we can tell you this for two reasons. number one, boeing confirmed that the wing flap came from a boeing airline 777. and they figured that out based upon various technical characteristics. number two representatives from

To add to that analysis but there was a little bit of a difference. there was no question malaysian prime minister saying after 515 days we can tell you this aircraft part is from mh-370. paris prosecutor did not say that. and he did not reveal anything about how they reached that conclusion. he didn't talk about part numbers, serial numbers that might have been found on the wing flap. he didn't talk about the paint that malaysian airlines had to use. i mean i'm not saying this is not a very big thing and the french are in some way casting doubt on this but the difference was quite interesting...