France confirms flaperon found on Reunion Island is from MH370


A file picture dated July 29 shows a piece of debris, later identified as a flaperon from an airplane, washed ashore in Reunion Island. - EPA

PARIS: French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began.

“It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370,” Paris prosecutors said in a statement, confirming what was said by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak last month.

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