Airplane debris found in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar at Reunion Island could be from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 which vanished almost 17 months ago. A source has told CNN it appears to part of a wing of a Boeing 777, the same type of plane of MH370.

Debris found off the coast of Indian ocean could be from the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

This piece of debris is about 2 meters long and about 1 meter wide, and sources say it is consistent to what you may find in a Boeing 777. Aviation analysts say it is like to be part of a back side of the left wing known as a controlling flapper arm. It meets the first test of being the right type of piece to find and it is also the right color and the right condition because it has barnacles all over it. That is consistent with something that has been in water for roughly 500 days. On the identifiers, being the serial numbers, almost every part of a big aircraft like this has a serial number. If they find the serial number on this other part, and it matches the Malaysia air flight, then officials will know they absolutely have evidence of that plane. It doesn’t, however, answer the question how did it wind up where it is. We have to remember all of the search areas for this plane for near the coast of Australia. How did it get all the way near Madagascar is the question and investigators have to calculate if ocean currents were strong enough to push it to Reunion Island to maybe give us the first physical piece of what happened to this missing plane.