numbers. but the issue is i ve seen some distant video of the piece. it did not look right to me. but let s get it to the investigators, people who have the engineering drawings to compare the piece to. let s be a little bit methodical about this. and then they said aluminum material was found and also seat cushions. could seat cushions survive for that length of time in the ocean? sure. a seat cushion could last over 500 days. and a seat cushion would be far easier to identify. you would know what kind of material if it had the exterior covering on it you could identify it through that. but again, i think this was a spokesperson for the minister of transportation who was not on reunion island. they re doing this through photographs at best. i d say we ought to take it
united states to show up as the first physical evidence, maybe, of what happened to this plane. wolf. key word maybe. it is so, so, intriguing. all right, tom, thank you. malaysian team has been dispatched to reunion island to investigate the wreckage found earlier today. malaysia s minister of transportation is hoping to identify the debris. one of the key questions could the wreckage as tom described, if it is in fact from flight 370 have drifted so sffar all most the coast of africa. southern indian ocean where the international teams have been searching. let s bring in meteorologist jennifer gray. looking at the currents in the indian ocean over there. stow what is your assessment, jennifer? wolf, you remember during the tsunami in japan, debris ended up on the west coast of the united states. about nine months later. debris can drift. and drift, very, very far. in fact the ocean is controlled
did the spanish prime minister and as did hollande. limited in their comments and to express solidarity for a horrible tragedy. chancellor merkel says she is shaken and will be traveling to the scene and the minister of transportation were already on their way over there. so what is next? clearly, the whole issue of the black boxes. the fact there was no communication from these pilots to anyone on ground control is something i still think is important because it wasn t a quick descent. it was 13 or 15 minutes and never did they hear from these people. i think what s sblesing about the analysis on this jose is in situations like this where
to do with an aircraft. i m not putting a lot of stock in this yet until we see photographs and see the actual structure itself. surprise that in the press conference of the malaysian authorities, the interim minister of transportation there that he didn t even mention it until it was coaxed from a question? yeah. and i think they re just being super cautious, as they should be, about giving any false hope to the families. they ve been through so much already. every single piece of information just loses its credibility immediately until it s proven. and again, we have no proof of anything at this point. to reach for straws is not a good practice, especially in his position. do you think that you re giving them too much credit in terms of saying it s because they don t want to give false hope to families? they ve been pretty tough on the families. what do you make of their resistance to answering these 26 questions, refusal to give out the inmarsat data? you know, i think that
crimes because they believe there was no intention to cause any harm. we ll send it back to chris. dan, i mean, the only clear infraction here is one of our security pro protocol. hours spent on the tarmac. this kid isn t the first to breach security this way at a major airport. . certainly something to discuss this. we want to bring you up to date on what was going on at that presser in flight 370. the malaysian interim minister of transportation was asked about this object of interest that was reportedly found on the coast of australia. he says that he is not yet received any photos from australia and that, so far, all of the objects found in the search have not been related to the missing plane. so he doesn t have the pictures yet so i don t know how you can make a determination about this object but that s why we haven t heard any more about it. when we get information we will give it to you. thanks so much. let s get to chad myers in for indra petersons, keeping track