France confirms wing part found on Reunion Island belongs to MH370
France has confirmed that a wing part found in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
After more than a month of tests on the flaperon, prosecutors from the capital, Paris, confirmed on Tuesday that the part belongs to flight MH370.
"It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370," French prosecutors said in a statement.
In late July, a two-meter long piece of wreckage was found by people cleaning up a beach of the French island, east of Madagascar.
After the piece was sent to France for investigation, officials from Boeing company, the manufacturer of the missing plane, initially suggested that the debris is consistent in appearance with the flaperon of a Boeing 777.
The discovery of the flaperon may confirm that the plane crashed into the ocean, but it does not shed any light on the location of the crash.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, vanished from radar screens early on March 8, 2014, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on a scheduled flight to Beijing.
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