country that owns the aircraft to say, please help us, you have the resources, experience and expertise, please come here and work on this crash with our authorities, yet the chinese probably doing the same thing. you have boeing itself wanting to know what happened to their aircraft. you have rolls-royce, who made the engines of that aircraft in united kingdom, they may want to participate and send their engineers. so this is going to be a multinational effort and it's going to be an extensive investigation. >> all right, tom, thank you so much. meantime, we just got new video in showing the vietnamese plane crew that spotted oil slicks in the south china sea suspected to be coming from the missing asian airliner. reports are that the slicks are between six and nine miles long. cnn's jim clancy is joining us from kuala lumpur. are you hearing anything as to