A broken part from what appears to be a Boeing 777 was discovered on Wednesday on Reunion Island, a French island in the Indian Ocean just east of Madagascar. Though it has yet to be confirmed, the ...

When a wing section of a Boeing 777 washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion last month, the Malaysian government quickly ascribed the part to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But an ...

Malaysia Airlines referred to the the recovered part as a "flaperon." — -- The plane part that was discovered on Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar was determined to be part of Malaysia ...

Doubts about the origin of the Boeing 777 flaperon wing part found on the French island of Reunion are woefully misplaced. The Malaysians got this one right when declaring it as being from Malaysia ...

Beach cleaners had found a Boeing 777 wing part known as the flaperon on Reunion on July 31. The flaperon was subsequently sent to a French lab, where investigators could confirm that it belonged to ...

A piece of wreckage washed up on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean could finally solve one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. Experts from aircraft manufacturer Boeing and ...

Wing debris that washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean island of Reunion is definitely from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has now confirmed. The hope is that ...

Editor’s Note: Les Abend is a Boeing 777 captain for a major airline with 30 years of flying experience. He is also a CNN aviation analyst and senior contributor to Flying magazine. The opinions ...

Reporting from Paris — The prime minister of Malaysia said Wednesday that wing debris found on an island in the Indian Ocean was that of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. His comments came hours ...

Flaperons are control surfaces on the wing of an aircraft that help to stabilize the plane during low-speed flying during take-off and landing. Flaperons combine the functions of flaps and ailerons.

The discovery last week of what appeared to be a piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on the shores of Réunion Island seemed at first blush a giant leap toward solving the famously perplexing mystery ...

Experts confirmed a wing flap found on an island in the Indian Ocean belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Wednesday. Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge ...