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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.

A “metal object of interest” related to the search was found Sunday morning on the beach in St. Denis, part of Reunion Island, a local government official said.

Malaysia has also deployed additional personnel to look for more debris at Réunion while dispatching another set of experts to France to coordinate the investigation.

Chunks of what was evidently parts of an aircraft were found off the coast of St. Andre on Reunion Islands in western Indian Ocean.

The wing fragment found on the island of Reunion is wrapped and ready to be loaded on a cargo flight for France, where experts are hoping to learn whether it comes from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The analysis is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, 5 August.

The analysis will begin on Wednesday.

Aviation investigators still have to make a definitive judgment on whether the item, which appears to be a wing component, is from the Malaysian jetliner that disappeared almost 17 months ago with 239 people aboard.

“They have informed me”, Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on Friday.

The debris, found in the Indian Ocean Wednesday, appears to have come from a Boeing 777 – the model that was Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 when it disappeared a year ago.

Boeing zoomed past estimates for second-quarter earnings and revenues and lowered its guidance for the rest of the year.

McNerney, who took over Boeing as it was struggling with massive production delays from its 787 Dreamliner program, leaves behind a company with a record book of new jet orders and the fastest production rate in history.