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For families looking for closure. joining me now is captain jay rollins, a retired american airlines captain and former navy pilot. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, reverend. >> tell me about this report that investigators say the debris matches a boeing 777. how important is that? >> well, it is absolutely vital and it is almost certain that it is the aircraft. there are no 777s missing other than this aircraft. and it is located in the same ocean. the other aircraft that have crashed,...

Ive since it was found they have been searching day and night to see if they can find more. theyve been out in fishing boats, coast guard vessel has been out. theyve been up in the air in a helicopter. its pitch-black here. i have to say from what i could see the beach was absolutely covered in debris because this is part of a strong current that comes all of the way from australia which may be 4,000 miles away. but the current brings debris on to the coast of this island and madagascar near her...

People would look for as far as a search area. if its only been adrift for 100 days or 200 days and just now finding it, that too, will change the drift and exactly where they would be looking to either define a new search area or refine an old search area. so i think that theres going to be still a lot of scientific work to be done. of course, with the ocean currents and trying to find where the drift pattern may have originated. >> greg fife thank you very much. well follow. this up next presi...

Generally things undulating toward though west with. there are nuances with the ocean currents here. generally we have a west ward motion here. if you talk about reverse engineering its going to be tricky. you have some eddies here as well. i think their best guess is where they have been looking over the last year and a half here. may not tell us much here but it is at least one of the pieces in the puzzle as far as the wreckage is concerned. thank you, ivan. >> so many twists and turns but as ...

What you should be looking at are the ocean currents. the idea that it went down where they thought it did and over time, it has slowly washed along the currents and pushed over here toward reunion island. thats why this is the spot where they found what may be, may be, the first physical piece of proof about what happened to malaysia air flight. >> tom, thanks very, very much. 239 people were aboard that plane. 227 were passengers, 12 crew members, all missing since march of 2014. by the way, t...

It is the right type of piece to find and the right color, condition. it has barnacles on it. it is something consistent in the water for 500 day s roughly. now you have to check out the identifiers, thor issial numbers on this piece. most every part has serial numbers on it, like this seat cushion from a different plane. if they find the serial number and it matches the malaysia air flight, then that is a deal. they will know, they have evidence of what happened to that plane. doesnt answer the...

The australian xlanldcommand center said that the fact this showed up where did it, would support the thesis that the plane went down in that primary search zone off the coast australia. why, you say? because of the currents in the indian ocean. they do a counter clockwise movement. if could i draw a circle there, innocent middle of the indian ocean, i would do that. you would see counter clockwise, thats what the currents do. they believe it is entirely possible that months even a year later, i...

Joining us now is john ransom, former commercial pilot and anthony roman, former commercial pilot and avian expert. and also with us ian mcdonald president of oceanography at florida state university will be joining us by phone. anthony roman, whats your reading on the latest news? >> i think this is a remarkable development, lawrence and the first real break i think we have had in the investigation concerning this mysterious disappearance. the ocean currents and the wind drift are consistent wi...

Is salinity. it will be nuanced here. as richard mentioned it will be difficult, regardless of that, to trace something that washed ashore in reunion all the way back to the search area here. thats what they are going to look at here. as you can see here, this is live current feed from earth school.net. we can track the ocean currents and you can see to the south here some of the eddies that begin to form. it takes a while. theres understoodlation unless t -- undlations. it will be difficult to ...

Whether that came from the missing plane. thats going to be a real job for them to do. theres the final question. is there more debris out there. that, of course, relies on the tio tides, the currents, and the time. >> richard, i want you to stand by. we have other information thats also coming in, but i quickly want to bring in our meteorologist jennifer grey. this debris washing up, as richard said, more than 2,000 miles from the flight 370 search area, could ocean currents actually have moved...