country that owns the aircraft to say, please help us, you have the resources, experience and expertise, please come here and work on this crash with our authorities, yet the chinese probably doing the same thing. you have boeing itself wanting to know what happened to their aircraft. you have rolls-royce, who made the engines of that aircraft in united kingdom, they may want to participate and send their engineers. so this is going to be a multinational effort and it s going to be an extensive investigation. all right, tom, thank you so much. meantime, we just got new video in showing the vietnamese plane crew that spotted oil slicks in the south china sea suspected to be coming from the missing asian airliner. reports are that the slicks are between six and nine miles long. cnn s jim clancy is joining us from kuala lumpur. are you hearing anything as to
of many that are concerning. so many simultaneous absolutely aspects of the vest dwags are going to go forward, such as what caused the plane to come out of the sky and crash. if it did crash into the ocean, did the pilot fly it in on purpose? did it have a catastrophic mechanical failure? was it sabotaged? an explosion? terrorism? that is a factor for the plane itself. but in terms of the passengers, the authorities of many coun countries, every country listed as having a citizen on that plane, will be working together to verify the identity of every single person. so, that means and the majority of the persons were more than 150 chinese citizens, so that will require a lot of work on the part of the chinese to verify each person s identity listed as being on the aircraft as well as all of the other passengers including the americans that were on that flight. so, identifying each person, identifying all the aspects concerning the aircraft are
crucial. so far, no terrorist organization has risen up and taken credit that s been reported. it remains a very deep mystery concerning the people on the aircraft and the aircraft itself. of course, finding the plane, finding out why it went down and then why the manifest would have names of people who don t necessarily match the identities of the passengers. right. but they don t do one and wait until that s completed and then do the next one. this is all occurring simultaneously and it s bringing to bear the resources of every country. in this situation that might have had someone on that aircraft including the united states, including china, malaysia. who would be a directly involved in this. and their crash experts as well, so the ntsb because there are americans on that aircraft, they typically get invited by the
they have been left here for more than 24 hours. no word fwr their families. obviously, hope is fading of finding this aircraft. they know that. they want some closure. they want some answers. that might help them to understand what has happened. where their loved ones might be. what is the possibility they would even be able to recover their bodies. they don t have the answers to any of that and perhaps the question that baffles the most, the one they re asking themselves, the most difficult one that may never been answered is why. all right. jim clancy, thank you so much. keep us posted. making her first court appearance in the u.s., the mother charged with attempted murder after driving her van into the ocean with her children inside. we ll tell you what happened next. and debt desperate families wait for that news about their loved ones on board that missing
whether this plane simply went off radar one hour or two hours after take off or was there a different time frame that s being examined now? well, i think that s the same time frame that s being examined right now. very quickly that it seems to just disappear. and that has authorities here baffled, concerned, and of course, the families grief stricken. we re at kuala lumpur international airport. the families have been sequestered away from the media. they are awaiting word. everyone is awaiting word. the ceo of malaysia airlines saying we re not ruling anything out here as they look at this. now, this oil slick that two of them that have been reported, that came from vietnamese search aircra aircraft. and they indicated they thought this might be typical for a plane like this one. so they were making the presumption, if you will, that