Investigators 'confident' debris on island is missing plane's wing

Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean shows a Boeing 777 wing component, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year.

Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the wreckage as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a 777 wing, a US official said.