A piece of an aircraft wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian and Australian officials said Friday. Investigators used a part number found on the debris to link it to the missing Boeing 777, the agency said in a statement. So far, none of the debris has helped narrow down the precise location of the main underwater wreckage. Investigators need to find that in order to locate the flight data recorders that could help explain why the plane veered so far off course. Search crews are expected to finish their sweep of the 46,000-square-mile search zone in the Indian Ocean by December.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2016 05:26 UTC