16 months ago. phillip wood was among the 239 aboard mh370 and sarah is joining us now. after 500 days to get this news of a likely piece of debris what was your initial reaction? well, on the one hand i really don t want it to be part of 370 because that way we can still keep hope out that it wasn t an ocean crash. but on the other hand i think we re all pretty exhausted by the process and need a little bit of closure at this point. yeah i can imagine. this is a very trying time. and there have been so many false starts and false claims along the way. i can imagine that you probably want to say or stay cautiously optimistic but somewhat skeptical. yeah skeptical would be the better word because how can you be optimistic about such confirmation of bad news. but i m very glad that it s in french territory because at least an independent country without too much skin in the game is looking at it.