from the missing plane? it s possible. but you know it is going to take some analysis. i don t know why malaysia got so out in front of this to make that kind of a statement. even though they said they can t confirm it is from mh370, it is still wound, drives those wounds deeper in the family and loved ones of the victims. it is so true. you have the investigation of the flaperon part of the exterior of the plane. can you learn something different from items that might be from the inside of the plane like the seat cushion? absolutely. i mean not so much the cushions but the, maybe the window about how it might have come apart. but more importantly is how it drifted. these three thing thousands would look entirely differently, float entirely differently. how did they end up coming to the same potspot in the ocean. it doesn t happen like that over this much of time. it will help with the drift models a tiny bit. we ll have to wait and see. that s fascinating. you speak with a lot
so french officials aren t going as far as malaysian officials are on this thing, right? reporter: right. while it s likely it is linked to mh-370 there s a small element of doubt. they haven t confirmed it con conclusively yet. in a hangar behind me the fragments of air france flight 447 which went down on a flight from brazil to france a few years ago, so they have experience of dealing with exactly this type of issue. it s these conflicting statements that have angered the families today, some of the families in china have accused malaysia of rushing to conclusions and say that it s weakened their confidence that they ll ever get answers as to what happened to mh-370. tell me what you re hearing about this new debris found on
particular case. is it a possibility? i leave it on the table that there was a mechanical issue that overwhelmed the pilots and eventually succumbed the aircraft. miles, you say no way. you say this was a deliberate act? i do, anderson. and i wonder if we should just think back to june of 2014, when cnn reported from sources at the fbi, in which i ve had corroborated myself, that on the captain s flight simulator system at home, there was a flight path that was nearly identical to what we d been talking about. why on earth would a captain at home practice a flight on a simulator that leads to fuel exhaustion in the middle of the ocean? i don t know of any pilot that would do that. pilots like to land on short runways, they like to land on high runways, do all kinds of things. but practicing a circuitous route that leads to fuel exhaustion in the ocean, which cnn has recorded was on that flight simulator, i think maybe
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