Officials have confirmed that the flaperon found on Reunion Island off the coast of Africa last week originated from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished in March 2014. That origin for the wreckage had already been widely assumed, since it was known to be from a Boeing 777, and only one of those has been lost in the Indian Ocean. However, the statement fromMalaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday lent official certainty to the news."It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you, an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion is indeed from MH370," Razak said at a brief press conference. "We now have physical evidence that ... Flight MH370 tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean."
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