KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 — The Malaysian technical team will be able to study the debris of a plane suspected to be of vanished Flight MH370 that was retrieved from Reunion Island after clearance of all legal matters with the French on Monday, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said today.

Aziz confirmed that the debris, a two-metre-long flaperon of a Boeing 777, was flown to Tolouse in France today but both the Malaysian and French teams will only get to examine the debris after Monday’s meeting in the country’s capital of Paris.

“The French have called for a meeting this Monday. Before we go do the verification, we have to go through all the legal protocols, procedures stated by the French authorities,” Aziz told reporters here.

“This is because the debris is under the custody of the French, so this is an important evidence for them,” he added.

Leading the four-member Malaysian technical team is Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman.

The flaperon, which has raised hopes of solving the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, was scheduled to leave the island at 9.15pm on Friday and arrive at Paris Orly airport at 06.20am today.

It will then be transported to the southern city of Toulouse for investigators to pore over in the hope of proving the wreckage came from the doomed MH370.

Authorities have warned, however, that one small piece of plane debris was unlikely to completely clear up one of aviation’s greatest puzzles.

The Malaysia Airlines plane, which was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappeared without trace on March 8 last year with 239 people on board.

Officials have confirmed the debris comes from a Boeing 777 and only two others of this type are known to have crashed: one over Ukraine, the other at San Francisco airport.