The bureau added that all of the identification stamps had a second OL number, in addition to the Boeing part number that was the unique identifier related to part construction.
Boeing subsequently recovered build records for the numbers located on the part and confirmed that all of the numbers related to the same serial numbered outboard flap that was shipped to Boeing as line number 404.
Based on the company’s records, aircraft line number 404 was delivered to Malaysian Airlines and registered as 9M-MRO.
Just like what they did to the flaperon found last year near the coast of Reunion Island off Madagascar, ATSB would use their confirmation on the flap section to determine how the debris drifted to its final resting place as affected by winds and currents.
Investigators are confident that the confirmation of the flap section and the flaperon could help them solve one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time.
They are still examining other pieces of debris that were found in Mozambique, South Africa, and the Rodrigues Island off the coast of Mauritius.
There have been a number of conspiracy theories about the plane’s disappearance on March 8, 2014. There are those who are saying that Malaysian pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately crashed the plane into the ocean in a horrific suicide mission, which was denied by his family.