Wreckage found on Reunion Island that experts believe could be from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has arrived here.
The two-metre, barnacle-encrusted chunk of metal wreckage which emerged from the sea on Wednesday has raised hopes of discovering what happened to the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight which mysteriously disappeared from radars on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, The Guardian reported.
The piece of wreckage - known as a flaperon - arrived at Paris' Orly airport at 6.17 am local time on Saturday on an Air France flight from the island of Reunion.
The flaperon will be taken to the southwestern city of Toulouse to a defence ministry laboratory where it will be analysed this week if it is a part of the missing aircraft.
The Malaysian government on Friday said that Malaysia Airlines had confirmed that the flaperon was from a Boeing 777 and that investigators were now "moving close to solving the mystery of MH370".
Abdul Aziz Kaprawi, the deputy transport minister, said the wreckage could be "the convincing evidence that MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean".
The flaperon bears the part number 657 BB, according to photographs of the debris, which Abdul Aziz said identified it as coming from a 777.
"From the part number, it is confirmed that it is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. This information is from MAS (Malaysia Airlines). They have informed me," he said.
Boeing said it is sending experts to France. The US National Transportation Safety Board also will travel to take part in the probe, a source told CNN.
A preliminary report could come as early as next week.
The report won't give "an exact sequence of events," the source said, but will at least eliminate some scenarios.
