Investigators believe they may have found part of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

On Thursday, Malaysian officials said they were "almost certain" that the flaperon, a control surface attached to the wing of an airplane, found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean belongs to a Boeing 777 aircraft.

"Our chief investigator here told me this," Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said. That is the same type of aircraft as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Reuters reports, and investigators say that MH370 is the only known Boeing 777 to be missing at this time. The airplane disappeared March 2014 with 239 people onboard as it made its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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