Where is the rest of MH370?

That long agonizing period passed without the discovery of a single piece of physical evidence until last week on July 29, a piece of debris, part of an aircraft wing component known as a flaperon, surfaced on the French island of Reunion in the southern Indian ocean.

Today it was confirmed that the piece of flaperon is actually part of MH370.

At about 1:45am on Thursday morning, like many of you, I was tuned in to the press conference given by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. I was clinging on to his every word whilst at the same time updating my families and friends.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you, that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.”

Najib also relayed his empathy to the families and friends of those who were on board the plane.

Then I switched to CNN to watch the press conference given by Serge Mackowiak, Paris Deputy Prosecutor in France, where the flaperon had been brought for further analysis.

Mackowiak stopped short of declaring with certainty that the debris was indeed from MH370, saying only that there was a "very strong presumption".

He added that more testing will be done to prove it conclusively.

Processing all this, that's when a thought crossed my mind

What were the families and friends of those lost on MH370 feeling at the very same moment? Were they sad that there was now confirmation of their worst fears?

Or hopeful, at least a little, and that this might finally give them closure? Perhaps anger, which is understandable under such circumstances? I simply cannot imagine.

So with confirmation from a team of international experts that the flaperon actually came from MH370, what’s next?

Mackowiak in his statement said that “the only aim is to find out the truth and to make sure that all the hypotheses are checked out.”

Conspiracy theorists continue to come up with a host of possibilities, from the plane being transported to Russia or Pakistan for use in terrorism, being shot down near the island of Diego Garcia, to alien abduction.

Ultimately, we have to find the rest of the plane in order to piece the puzzle together.

Still, one can’t help but wonder – what actually happened to MH370?

According to investigators, the location of the flaperon discovery confirmed that MH370 went down within the designated search zone in the southern Indian Ocean, but even after weeks of analysis, they say it may not yield any answers as to why the plane crashed.

So don’t hold your breath as we might not get the answers anytime soon. We can only patiently wait, and hope, that the mystery will one day be unraveled.