that continues to captivate the world. authorities know the plane intentionally veered off course but say they don t know why the boeing 777 with 239 people on board made a dramatic turn over the sea between malaysia and vietnam. and they don t know exactly where the plane s journey ended. using satellite data search officials calculated the plane went down in southern indian ocean. most recently been combing an area of ocean floor 1,000 miles west of perth, australia, 2,700 miles from where this debris was found. now investigators and scientists s are cal cue lagt if pieceku calculating. it is definitely possible it could have drifted that far considering the time in the water. reporter: experts stressed other planes have crashed in the area this piece of wreckage could be from one of them. contacted by cnn boeing would say it is continuing to provide technical expertise to the search teams. brian todd cnn, washington.
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in local media appears to be a wing flap. if it is 777 it is pretty clear it would be part of mh-378 the number of 777s that crashed are minuscule at best. one french official stresses it is way too soon to say if this is part of the missing plane. what do authorities need to examine from this piece of wreckage to possibly come up with a match. many parts of boeing airplanes have serial numbers attached to the particular parts riveted on to the particular part. they ll look to see if the serial number traces back to boeing airplane on any type of airplane. in addition to that. you are going to be able to find out, does this part match up with a specific diagram of of parts of the triple 7. flight 370 disappeared after taking off on march 8, 2014. bound for beijing. but it never made it. vanishing without a trace. sparking an international search
sources say there is a growing feeling this 7 1/2 foot chunk of metal is from mh-370, one source telling cnn boeing engineers have scrutinized debris like these. the flapperon, the back edge of the wing that helps pilots control the plane at lower speeds. sources say one reason why boeing may be confident is in this photo. published by a news website on the island, it appears to show the debris with an airplane component number stencilled on it. the reason it s a big deal that a component number was found is because you can trace that to either assembly at boeing, perhaps, or at the supplier that built that particular part. reporter: images posted online of an internal boeing 777 maintenance manual also shows a key section of the aircraft wing and the same component number seen in this photo. 657-bb. the french authorities are