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Our Newscast unit reports that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced at a news conference Wednesday that pieces of a jet have been identified:

"Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion island is indeed from MH370," he said.

"We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24th March last year, Flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean."

France24 reports that deputy Paris prosecutor supports the Malaysian prime minister's statement:

Investigators will analyze the wing fragment's metal "with high-powered microscopes to probe what caused the plane to go down," 

The Boeing 777 plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard.

Experts have determined that the wing fragment found on an island in the Indian Ocean is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The fragment washed ashore on the French island of Reunion and was taken to France for testing.

, the airline said that MH370 "is believed to be the only 777 to have crashed south of the equator since the jet came into service 20 years ago."
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The fragment washed ashore on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and was taken to France for investigation.

Experts confirm wing fragment is from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370

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