An international panel of experts have determined beyond doubt that the aircraft piece that washed ashore on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean did indeed belong to missing MH370 flight.
After being found on a beach on the French-controlled island of La Reunion, the wing fragment was sent to France, where investigators will analyze it with high power microscopes to try and shed some light as to what really happened on the ill-fated flight.
MH370 vanished without a trace on March 8 2014 with 239 people onboard, and up to last week, no hard evidence of the wreckage had been found anywhere.
The few known facts are that the Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. About an hour into the flight, the aircraft veered wildly off course and disappeared from radar. It is believed it flew into remote reaches of the Indian Ocean until it plunged into the sea, having run out of fuel.