Boeing 777 debris found on Réunion Island, believed to be part of missing MH370

Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing.

FP Staff|Jul 31, 2015, 11:04:27 IST

[caption id="attachment_2373102" align="alignleft" width="1280"] French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion . Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a US official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie)[/caption][caption id="attachment_2373106" align="alignleft" width="1280"] French police officers inspect a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie)[/caption][caption id="attachment_2373110" align="alignleft" width="940"] French gendarmes and police inspect a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. France's BEA air crash investigation agency said it was examining the debris, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian authorities, to determine whether it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished last year in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. (Reuters)[/caption][caption id="attachment_2373114" align="alignleft" width="1280"] Direction generale de l'armement (DGA) facilities in Balma, near Toulouse, south-western France, where the France's BEA crash investigation agency will verify the plane debris found in the Reunion Island. A 6-foot long piece of an airplane was found off Reunion Island on Wednesday by people cleaning the beach. (AP Photo/Fred Lancelot)[/caption]

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