that it doesn t have any marine life growing on it. whether that is definitive or not, it s not, but of course, we like the family members of the passengers on board flight mh-370 are holding on to every piece of information. just to clarify, referring to the suitcase he does not believe is part of mh-370. same ma mohsin, appreciate it. let s bring in david gallow and aviation analyst julian bray. we heard from samia that there s an expert who does not believe that piece of the suitcase is part of mh-370 because there s a lack of marine life. david, first to you. we ve got this picture of a piece of metal that was discovered on the beach this morning. let s go to that piece. let s put that on-screen. no marine life here, either, david. looks like a brand-new piece of crumbled metal. every day on every beach things
also we have the earlier bodies which indicated that there was an element of free fall of the bodies. so it might have started to break up as it was coming down. . possibly an emergency door was popped and we also recovered the uninflated chute. so it looks like things were being sucked out offer ripped out of the aircraft as it came down. well we know that they have via sonar located some very large pieces. they don t know yet if it s this airplane. but hopefully we ll get some answers soon. thank you for helping us through this time. julian bray, thanks. thank you. airasia say it is will cooperate with indonesian authorities after it was revealed that the airline was not approved to fly the route on sunday that the flight went missing. the consequences of the investigation could be costly
in their police car. reports say israel plans to freeze the transfer of tax revenue collected for the palestinians. three more bodies have been identified after the crash of the airasia flight. that brings the toe at that time number of passengers identified to nine. dive teams have stopped their search for now for wreckage from the plane. the visibility is near zero. it s likely bad weather played a role in the airasia crash and that icing may have affected then gin. i m joined now by julian bray what are you taking away from what we continue to hear from some indonesian officials about that engine icing? an analyst i talked with earlier questioned how they re coming to that conclusion. what are you following?
there is also a lot of in-flight avonics going on. they have flight data up to that moment. unfortunately no one can control mother nature. as cnn identified early on it could be a weather issue. there were three large red blobs. huge thunderstorms. one 50 kilometers across. it is absolutely impossible to go through something like that and come unscathed. some people suggest that the wings may have been iced up. that is a distinct possibility. thank you, julian bray from cambridge, england. i agree with you. the only thing we know for sure is the families are grieving and they deserve our respect and condolences. thank you. let s see what is coming up on new day. michaela is joining us on the story. as you said, it is really
aircraft that way? exactly. we ll leave it there, but we appreciate you joining us here on cnn. julian bray there, an aviation consultant. very good sir. very good questions that he posed about gps in the car. problem solving so we are not in this mystery situation when these things happen. still no solid answers in airasia 8501. after the quick break we ll have a report on the searching and the waiting. also the ongoing efforts to rescue dozens of passengers still on a burning ferry in the adriatic sea.