miles, you re going to find something. you have the australian deputy prime minister and the transport minister saying that just over half of the water at this point that s been searched on the seafloor has been completed. are we looking at years before the plane is located? is it possible it s never located? i sure hope it s not years. it doesn t need to be years. when i look at the heartbreaking pictures of those family members, just the idea that this could rock on for a couple more seasons it s wintertime this now but when it gets better, and the weather is bad there in the winter. when it gets good enough to really search, i sure hope the world community, the malaysians leading, the chinese should step up, the australians, maybe the trench too, should double down another effort to search. it shouldn t rock on for a few more seasons. let s get more ships on station and start looking. now that we know, with much greater certainty, this is where it was, let s increase the search.
way, that long journey across in the currents. and then you have the barnacles. look at them they re everywhere. all across the marine life. by looking at that they will gain an indication of what has happened. but anderson, the core question, what is there on this flaperon that malaysia airlines believes it has identified what the prosecutor called the elements that tar spaare specific to that. we don t know what they are. nor do we know exact plea what they believe they show that that could have only come from mh370. anderson. david gallo, it s fascinating. richard pointing out the barnacles. the weathering pieces of what s the piece of debris has picked up being in the ocean. will investigators be able to get a better idea of where the plane may have gone down just from testing that material? or can it not be that specific?
mh370, why are they not on the same page as the rest of the officials in the investigation? a lot of people are asking the question, anderson. they have been planning this for days. supposed to be a coordinated message the difference in the message from malaysia and french prosecutor added to confusion, heartache, pain for family members certainly ones we have been speaking to here in china. keep in mind the prime minister as a politics tis under a lot of prub lickolitician is under a lot of pressure. off to use language conclusively confirm does contradict what the french prosecutor said. they re looking at this as a criminal investigation. and the single piece of physical evidence that they have this part of the wing clearly so far they haven t found the proof that they need to say, definitively it comes from mh370. they say it is very likely but they don t have that proof yet. will do we know the time line according to the rest of the countries involved. for being able to annou
barnacles. they re over 100 or over 1,000 species of barnacles. so unless these are particularly unusual they might not yield too much other than their indian ocean barnacles. but it miebtd interesting if they were all dead or alive on the flaperon because that might tell us how long it s been on the beach. also patterns on which they were on the flaperon any kind of water marks on the inside would tell us how it floated. for example, the chewed-up area what s called the trailing edge might have been because that was the bottom of the part that was in the water and scraped against the shoreline for who knows how long before it finally made it ashore. well at least we re one small step closer to answers. our senior aviation analyst mary schiavo, thanks for your time today from charleston. thank you. now, most of the 239 people on board mh370 were chinese citizens. cnn s david malko joins us from hong kong with reaction of some
from mh370? well we know in france they re going to be bringing in more experts and conducting more tests though. we don t have a clear picture yet of how many days weeks or perhaps longer before they re ready to make an announcement about whether this is indeed from mh370. but of course the other timeline is the search that s been happening in the southern indian ocean led by the australian teams that. has been continuing day in and day out. that search goes on unaffected no matter what they what they decide if they actually do just say this wing this piece of the wing is from the plane. they re still having to scour very deep ocean. and they re really no closer than they have been in finding the plane in the 239 people. yeah will you spoke about the families earlier. i know they were notified by malaysia airlines of the news today. that s right? some of them were yeah. there were phone calls that went out. there was also an e-mail message. just went out a few minutes before the