Investigators are travelling to the French Indian ocean island of La Réunion to see whether a piece of aircraft wing washed up on a beach is the first evidence from the crash of a Malaysian Airlines plane last year.<br /><br /> The debris looks like a wing flap but officials have little else to go on and have stressed it is too early to say one way or another.<br /><br /> However, experts say the part has certain features that appear to match a wing part of a 777 aircraft, known as a ‘flaperon’. Only one such plane has ever crashed south of the equator.<br /><br /> “It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this,” Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told Reuters.<br /><br /> Up to now, no trace has been found of the aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur towards Beijing.
