finally official. results are now in. that piece of airplane last week in the indian ocean is indeed part of malaysian flight 370. that s the flight that mysteriously vanished more than a year ago. in france where the investigation is still underway. catherine, what you can tell me? what i can tell you greta, is there were two parts of the investigation which helped the actual overall investigation get to this decision today. one was that the boeing aircraft company provided information on this particular part of the wing that had been washed up as the reunion island in the indian ocean. boeing had given investigators because the size, the color and the joint structure of this particular part of the wing. malaysian airlines had also shared technical details common characteristics. it has not gone as far as
apart, part by part, to look inside it to see what clues that can give away. they may well be able to tell us very soon whether this part belongs to mh-370 and perhaps even with further tests how the plane came to go down in the indian ocean. did this part come away from the plane in the air? did it come away on the sea? but they will not be able to tell us why. that will come from the flight data recorder. john, kate? how much of this early analysis is to link it to mh-370 and can that be done with something as simple as a part number or some kind of component number? and how much of it is as you say to try to forensically determine what might have happened to the plane either in the air or in the water? reporter: yeah, john, there are a number of stages to this. i really want to clarify that. there are part numbers and there are serial numbers. i can understand the impatience
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everyone wants right at the top is, does this flaperon belong to mh-370? we know that it s from a 777 aircraft and of course we know there is no other 777 aircraft missing in the world right now. this is, of course, one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. but they don t want to just say that by a process of elimination. they want a direct link between the flaperon that was brought here over the weekend in a sealed container to mh-370. so what kind of experiments are they going to be running right now? they ve agreed on what they re going to do over the last two days. of course, every group has its own way of investigating an air crash. so the united states, france, malaysia, had to agree what tests they d run. and they re likely to be doing things like sonograms, x-rays, 3-d imagery. rene marsh went to a laboratory yesterday to see how they would be doing these tests. then they will take the piece
confirmed that it is from a 777 aircraft. but, christi, that s not to say that it is definitely from mh-370. and this is the lab that i m at here in toulouse in the south of france. the dga. it s run by the french minister of defense where those folsom arms that erin mentioned should be cleared. so they ve said that it is from a 777 aircraft. they haven t said it s from mh-370. what will happen now is members of the united states, ntsb, malaysian officials and we re told now chinese officials, too, joining this group, and the french authorities will come to this lab, and they re saying that they ll meet on monday, but they won t start analyzing until wednesday. i imagine the scientists will be here first thing monday morning, running the tests they need to. and then the senior officials will come and take a look and hopefully confirm or deny what we need to know. that is, is it from mh-370.