Matching serial numbers from a piece of flaperon found on a French island in July confirm the debris is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, French investigators said Thursday. While Malaysian officials announced in August the 9-foot piece was from the Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014, the French government held off on its own confirmation until further analysis. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said numbers found inside the piece match records of a Boeing subcontractor, Airbus Defense and Space in Spain, which made part of the flaperon, according to a CNN report.
The part was sent to a laboratory in Toulouse for analysis. Sets of numbers found with an endoscope were matched with the manufacturer. “One of the three (series of numbers) collected inside the flaperon to the serial number of the Boeing 777 of flight MH370,” Molins’ office said. “Consequently, it is possible today to affirm with certainty that the flaperon discovered at the Reunion Island on July 29, 2015, is that of MH370.” The 777 disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijingwith 239 people on board. All are presumed dead and in January,the Malaysian government pronounced it an accident.
