Origin of Washed-up Plane Debris Could be Confirmed This Week

Investigators may know by the end of the week whether an airplane part that washed up on an Indian Ocean island belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, Australian officials say. French, Malaysian and Australian officials on Wednesday will begin a thorough examination into the debris, which was discovered last week on a beach at France's Reunion Island, near Madagascar. Officials have already confirmed the wreckage is a flaperon from the wing of a Boeing 777, the...

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