Airplane debris washes up on Reunion Island
French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. 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. Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing.
A piece of a large airplane has washed up on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, and investigators believe that it may have belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, marking a potential breakthrough in one of the greatest aviation mysteries in recent history.
