Flaperons are control surfaces on the wing of an aircraft that help to stabilize the plane during low-speed flying during take-off and landing. Flaperons combine the functions of flaps and ailerons.

Analysts at the French aviation laboratory where the scrap was headed Friday can glean details from metal stress to see what caused the flap to break off, spot explosive or other chemical traces, and ...

The daughter of passengers Bob and Cathy Lawton, Amanda, said they were still awaiting an actual report from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre to explain the French Prosecutor’s statement today.

A broken part from what appears to be a Boeing 777 was discovered on Wednesday on Reunion Island, a French island in the Indian Ocean just east of Madagascar. Though it has yet to be confirmed, the ...

An investigation team in France is examining a Boeing 777MH370: What can investigators learn from the plane debris? flaperon which washed up on the French island of La Reunion and that Malaysia says ...