Investigators in France are preparing to examine a barnacle-encrusted piece of a Boeing 777 found this week on a remote Indian Ocean island, hoping to resolve at least some of the mystery surrounding the long-vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Aviation experts professed near certainty that the slab of airplane wing came from Flight 370, which disappeared 16 months ago, and are hoping that lab tests will provide clues to what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.
The 6-foot-long piece of “flaperon” from a wing assembly was found on Reunion Island, a French territory, early Wednesday.