richard, the french investigators sea they won t start looking at the debris in toulou toulouse, france u. until wednesday. do they know how they re going to proceed? is there a game plan? testify to get everybody together. we know the ntsb will be there, the ma laze will be will. the b.e.a. from the french and the so you have an alphabet soup of people in the room. what they re aiming no is to discover what the piece is, where it s from and what happened. they ll do it in a timely fashion, but they will not rush. in it takes a day oar two longer for everybody to get there and everybody do it properly, that s the way it s going to be. once they go ahead ahold of this piece, they will treat it in a very different way to other people. they will be looking for different things and looking for any form of residue, any form of sea life, so they will be microscopically looking at this
rather than bungling around. did you say it representatives of boeing, the manufacturer, they will be at this investigation as well? forgive me i didn t mention boeing. thank you for reminding me. they will be there we re told as well. all of the relevant parties who can help understand what the part is, where it s come from, and what happened. yeah, they ve got to figure out why this plane went down, especially boeing has to figure it out. 1200 of these 777s are flying around the world right now. is it a problem, peter that it s going to take a whole week after they discover the flaperon before the investigation really starts moving forward? i know people are frustrated, but the french will be very methodical. they re doing it by the book. the book is annex 13, the treaty that governs these kinds of investigations. they are going to have all of these credited representatives, the u.s. is one, the u.s. is inviting boeing to come as their technical assistant. they will take th
news. a piece from the wing of what investigators now believe is a boeing 777 has been parked for shipping, put on a plane to france, due to arrive early saturday. the aircraft part washed up. lab tests may determine when it came from the malaysian airliner that disappeared almost a year and a half ago with 239 people on board. our aviation correspondent rene marsh has been working her stories, getting new information. what are el learning? tonight we are learning that a second identifying number found on the airplane part that was discovered at reunion island, sources are saying that this boeing engineer, they essentially saw a number on the photos of the debris, photos that you re looking at there. this number is an 11-digit number. that number is also consistent with a boeing 777. if you remember yesterday, we showed you a different image
found this piece of debris in the early days when there was such a wide-scale search conducted? remember, in the early days they were searching in entirely different places. first the south china sea, then eventually they made their way down to an area much farther north from where they are right now. so in the key days when that wreckage would have been near where the impact was, they were looking elsewhere, including in a different ocean. which is a good point, peter. also, there have been two, two full-scale typhoons in that indian ocean area since that plane disappeared. and that could have had a huge impact on anything that might have been floating around. exactly. this is, remember, seven feet long. if you re looking for a piece that small in the ocean, it s very difficult to find. you re flying at 150 knots, 300 or 400 feet over the ocean. very tough to find. what does it mean now there s
777. the piece is now en route to france, where experts will confirm its origin, and a potential link to the flight which disappeared almost a year and a half ago oy our correspondents are in key locations as are expert analysts, including the head of the naacp, cornel william brooks. let s begin with the latest. pamela brown is standing by with the latest, now at the center of this mh370 investigation. tonight officials are say they re all but certain the debris that washed up along the shores of reunion island came from a 777, ands intelligence agencies are taking a new look at the pilot and the flight path for important clues as to what happened. this flaperon believed to be from a 777 aircraft is en route to france in a large protected