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2. Officials believe the debris is from a Boeing 777. According to The Associated Press, a U.S. official who declined to be identified says investigators — including one from Boeing — identified the wreckage as a piece of a 777 aircraft. French law enforcement is on the scene to examine the debris, and Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said a team is headed to Reunion Island.

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5. Could currents have carried MH370 wreckage to Reunion Island? "Someone's going to have to really reverse-engineer the flow pattern of the ocean and try and backtrack where this may have floated from," Greg Feith, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said in an interview with NBC News.

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