have been pancaked in to the ocean in one piece and that perhaps some pieces broke off as it hit the ocean. it will show there was not a catastrophic breakup of the aircraft. are you surprised i it is this lone piece found so far? normally this kind of debris would travel in clusters at least, wouldn t it? there should be more pieces out there? of course it depends how large the debris field was in the first place. i m not surprised. they found one piece. i imagine i m sure now the investigators and the french police the authorities in reunion will be searching the shores of all of those islands looking for further debris. it wouldn t surprise me if other parts were found on beaches in that area. the bottom line is that everyone saying it is a breakthrough big clue but not going to reverse engineer it
australia has a particular responsibility in relation to the search for mh370 on the assumption that we are searching in the australian sea and rescue area the reunion island are french territory. so the responsibility fall primarily investigating this debris rests with the french and of course the malaysians who are the flag carriers of the aircraft. nonetheless, australia has again offered our assistance in this investigation. we have asked the csro and institute of marine research to have a look at the photographs and assess whether the barnacles that are evident in those photographs are consistent with something that was floating in the oceans for 16 months or nor and to give us any other advice