The Flaperon Found on Reunion Island is Confirmed to be Missing Part of Malaysia Plane

French gendarmes and police carry a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, July 29, 2015. 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.

The debris discovered on an Indian Ocean
Island last week has been confirmed by the Malaysian Prime Minister [Najib
Razak] to be part of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished en
route to Beijin in march 2014 with 239 people aboard. 



The 5-foot-long, barnacle-encrusted wing flap was discovered on July 29 by a crew cleaning the beach on Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean off the Southern tip of Africa. 

The confirmation on Wednesday provided the first physical evidence of what became of the plane after it disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014, with 227 passenger and 12 crew members on board. The plane is believed to have crashed into the Southern Indian Ocean.

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