reporter: yes. so the aircraft part is in the lab behind me. the suitcase that was found on that beach near the aircraft part by johnny bagu is taken to paris and it is going to be investigated by french police by forensic teams to try to see if there s anything in that suitcase that matches up with the dna of any of the 239 passengers or crew. so that s a sort of separate center of excellence that wouldn t be appropriate for the suitcase sent here because this is an aviation scientific center and we don t know yet if the analysis on the suitcase is started. we don t know yet when they might report yes or no whether that suitcase has anything to do with the beach or another piece of beach junk. okay. if you re just joining us we have been listening to two different officials talking over the last hour roughly from malaysian airlines first, malaysian prime minister, excuse
some of the relatives still hoping that somehow that plane had perhaps been hijacked and that it was on an island or in the northern hemisphere, somehow their relatives were still alive and it is almost certain now that all those people on board, all 239, are dead because this news confirms that it did crash into the sea and that that part that aircraft wing flap that was found by the environmental worker on reunion island last week, we talked to him there, we saw the part that that part is in fact not just from a boeing 777 but from mh-370. the investigators were here at this facility behind me looking at this aircraft part for a few hours this afternoon. to be honest thomas it must have been pretty obvious to them. there was a part number which identified it as being from a boeing 777. there must have been something else, we don t know what it was,
last year. it veered offcourse when flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. bill, could we get an answer today or any day now on whether the part of the plane is indeed from the missing airplane? reporter: good morning, jose. today is very very unlikely. experts from malaysia and from france, and australia and officials from boeing the plane maker and personnel from china arrived over an hour ago. we assume the investigation has begun but we haven t been given confirmation of that. as you know, we know the aircraft part in here is from a boeing 777. the experts will try to answer two other questions, is it from mh 370 and can it tell us anything about why and how and where that plane crashed? the first one of those questions is the easier one to answer. they ll be looking at paint and they ll be looking for a serial number on that wing flap. we know there was one number on
currents work. they are optimistic they can help solve this great international mystery and even find more debris. that big piece of aircraft debris that has been found is in france and it will be examined by french aviation experts who are hoping to unlock its secrets. they packed it carefully. every square inch of the aircraft wing flap may be vital in answering what happened to malaysia airlines 370. the degree has arrived in france to be analyzed at a specialist defense lab. french police are searching reunion s beaches for more debris. locals are making discoveries, finding pieces of plastic, taken in by police as evidence. the man who found the aircraft part and a a bettered suitcase here found water bottles from china and indonesia, half pa t passengers were chinese. i hope to find a lot more debris he says to help solve this mystery.
the man who found the aircraft part and a battered suit case here, found water bottles from china and indonesia half of the passengers were chinese. i hope to find a lot more debris he says to help solve this mystery. but there is a problem. the truth is there is every kind of junk on this beach, something that look likes a machine part this as well this is a rubber ring from something, it could have fallen off a ship off an aircraft off anything. investigators look for debris by air, too. we joined the search along a coast where finding anything more could be tough. there wes 120 miles of coastline to search on this island alone. on a nearby island it s more than 3,000 miles and there are two dozen islands in the general area that they d have to search. so all eyes on the debris they found and what it might tell us.