will come here. we are not expecting them to meet in earnest and start analyzing this piece until wednesday. it is run by the ministry of defense. it is shut for the weekend. they won t get here until monday. perhaps some scientists and experts who look into air crash investigations will start carrying out their experiments and what do they hope to find from that, victor? they will be taking a look at that piece and taking particular care to analyze where it is torn away from the aircraft, because the angles of the way it is torn. any kind of chemicals that are left on that will perhaps identify whether it came off in the air or did it come off on impact with the sea? right at the top there, you mentioned those barnacles as well. marine experts are looking at those to see just how long that has been at the sea. there is a lot more information to come, not just
it would explain why there may not have been communication. are there any suspects? they ve gone through everybody on the aircraft and determined that there is no one there that would match the profile of someone who would take over that aircraft. if not human intervention, could something on the plane have malfunctioned? it s got to fly for another six hours. that s the problem. the mechanical questions. what kind of catastrophe could shut down the plane s communications, but still have allowed it to fly? anybody that chooses to hang their hat on one scenario or the other, in my view, is heading for a fault. the entire experience of air crash investigations is that, yes, it s usually the obvious, but it s quite frequently, it s something you d never even thought of. there s no way to know, until
that goes up as the plane comes in to land. is it from mh 370? at least two serial numbers have been identified on that flaperon. perhaps experts from boeing or air crash investigators can trace that back even before it starts being looked at on wednesday. so maybe we will have some kind of identification before they start looking on wednesday and then as i mentioned, it s not just identifying this is from mh 370, but perhaps they can see from this piece exactly what happened to that plane. did that flap deploy in the air and did it am away from the plane in the air or did it come away, torn away on impact with the ocean? that is what experts will be able to tell. they have been looking at the air crash investigations for many, many years and will be able to look at this piece and
let me ask you, what is the latest from there? have they gotten a look at it yet? reporter: yeah it arrived under armed guard, if you like. it had a police escort. so important is this piece of flapfl flapperon. right now you ask what s going on? i ll show you. this is a ministry of defense facility where a lot of air crash investigations have taken place. it s shut. not a lot going on right now. we don t believe there is anyone going to come in here until first thing monday morning. and that s when scientists will arrive. there are a lot of forensic experts that work here. these are experts who have worked on the this for decades. for example, where it came away from the main body of the plane. they will look at the edges of this flapperon and they will be
they ve gone through everybody on the aircraft, and they ve determined that there is no one there that would match the profile of someone who would take over that aircraft. if not human intervention, could something on the plane have malfunctioned? it s got to fly for another six hours. that s the problem. but the mechanicals questions. what kind of catastrophe could shut down the plane s communications but still have allowed it to fly? anybody that chooses to hang their hat on one scenario or the other, in my view, is headed for a fall. the entire experience of air crash investigations is that, yes, it s usually the obvious, but it s quite frequently something you never even thought of. there s no way to know until the black boxes are found.