The two-metre-long flaperon, which has raised hopes of solving the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, will leave the island at 9:15pm local time today and arrive at Paris Orly airport at 06:20am local time, the sources said.
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 one small piece of plane debris was unlikely to completely clear up one of aviation's greatest puzzles.
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.
