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Over the top of the round top. so he wasnt able to -- i wasnt able to show him the chinese characters on it, but he did say that the actual fixing looked quite crude, and i must admit the rivets doesnt look like aviation craft standard to me. so, its not a precision piece of welding, or fixing. so milk churn would be my take on it. >> so, in your opinion, likely not from mh-370. julian its important to say that not every piece and in some cases maybe the most important pieces here will not be th...

Magistrate sitting in there, because this is in france a criminal investigation as there are french nationals involved in the disappearance, on the missing mimiss ing passenger list. youve got the flaperon and it is confirmed from coming from a triplie 7 but not the triple 7. i understand theyve actually put out a general appeal for anybody beach combing who comes up with something, to send it in and preserve it so they can actually put together a picture. what were really after is lots of debri...

That there was evidence in that suitcase perhaps that it had been burned. that would obviously be very significant, but if it cant be links in any definitive way to mh370 with a bag tag or some sort of identification, we can only assume it fell off a cruise ship or something like that. we shouldnt go down the road on this red herring just yet. however, its time to be looking in that part of the world, doing some beach combing and seeing if theres other debris, for sure. >> if they do have a chan...

Other ships have been taken off for the course of the winter because conditions are so appalling. they have to find a very clear goal, which is 120,000 square kilometers. to that extent, as i understand it, theres no wavering by the australians in the commitment to search that area fully and properly. in terms of searching further reunion, madagascar, east coast of africa, one can certainly make an argument for searching for further debris, its a vast area over many months and im not sure -- we ...

>> it is entirely possible that it could also be trash. as we have seen over the last several weeks, there is a lot of debris out over the ocean from a number of different sources, the finding this morning is a reminder to all of us is that somewhere somebody is likely to find something. beach combing takes on a whole new meaning. >> absolutely it does. and we know the family members they want evidence and proof, some piece of this plane. and we know that a woman whose partner was on this triple...

Eventually you would see things washing up. and i think the currents are generally moving in that area. but its still going to take some time. so if you have a lot of time, you might start doing some beach combing. >> but were talking about that. think about it. when you said close to australia, how many -- what is it, like 1200 miles, 1300 miles or so off the coast of australia? >> about 1100, 1200 miles at the moment. >> so that would take a while to wash up. here is something from tamara says...