The wing part from a Boeing 777 that washed up on an Indian Ocean island arrived in Paris Saturday to be handed over to investigators looking for a possible link with missing flight MH370.

Paris' Orly airport website confirmed the Air France flight transporting the piece of wreckage landed at 6.17 am local time (0413 GMT). A police escort will accompany the part on its journey by road to a defence ministry laboratory near the southwestern city of Toulouse, where experts will begin their analysis on Wednesday.