BALMA, France, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Examination of an aircraft part, possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, began Wednesday in Balma, France.
The component of a Boeing 777 wing was found last week, washed up on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The plane, also a Boeing 777, disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard; it is believed to have crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, but the first discovery of what may be the plane's debris occurred nearly 4,000 miles away on Reunion.