French investigators have confirmed the piece of wing debris that wash ashore on the French island of Reunion is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the plane that went missing in March 2014 with 239 people on board.
In a live TV address Wednesday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed the fragment, known as a flaperon, belonged to the missing airliner.
“Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370,” Najib said, per The Guardian. “We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
