Plane part touches down in France

A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has arrived at a French military testing facility where it will be analyzed by experts.

Malaysian government officials will ask territories near Reunion to alert them if they find any debris that could be from a plane, a transport ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.

Investigators have found what may be a maintenance number on the wing piece, which may help investigators figure out what plane it belongs to, Truss said.

Before the part arrived in France, investigators had a high-degree of confidence that the flaperon was from a Boeing 777, and therefore most likely from Malaysia 370. “However I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority, and other people on the bottom in Reunion, and it was only a home ladder”.

Experts will begin their analysis on Wednesday, along with an examination of parts of a suitcase discovered nearby.

MH370 was one of only three Boeing 777s to have been involved in major incidents, along with the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine last year and the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco airport in 2013 that left three dead. In addition to that, a legal expert from the investigating team and French investigation agency BEA would meet Malaysian officials.

“In the aeronautic community there is no (doubt) on the issue of what the debris belongs to”.

It was well understood after the aircraft disappeared that if there was any floating debris from the plane, Indian Ocean currents would eventually bring it to the east coast of Africa, said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai stated in a press release Sunday that representatives from Malaysia, the U.S., China, France and Boeing would participate within the verification of the flaperon.

Flight 370 had been traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but investigators believe based on satellite data that the plane turned south into the Indian Ocean after vanishing from radar.

On the island Saturday afternoon, a memorial service was held at a church simply down the street from the place the wreckage was found, CBS Information’ Jonathan Vigliotti reported. A candle was lit for each of the 239 people on Flight 370 when it vanished.

“I urge all parties to allow this crucial investigation process to take its course”. However, others have warned one small piece of plane debris is unlikely to completely clear up one of aviation’s greatest puzzles.