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Solving one of the worlds biggest aviation mysteries, boeing investigators have looked at this video and these photos of the debris covered in seashells. their conclusion the piece of wreckage is a wing component from a boeing 777, whats called a flaperon. and theres only one missing 777 anywhere in the world, malaysia 370. at a press conference overnight, the deputy prime minister of australia called it a major lead. >> this is obviously a very significant development. its the first real eviden...

>> nbcs katy tur in indonesia. back stateside well bring in tom costello. we know theres been a lot of unconfirmed reports out there. what are the facts we know so far? >> katy touched on the sonar data and whether it in fact shows where or where not this plane may be resting. the head of airasia says there are no confirmed sonar pings coming from any wreckage. we have to see what daylight brings and the search brings as they continue to navigate through this very difficult weather. what we do k...

Im joined by the former ntsb investigator and he was in charge of the agencys go team for nearly ten years. thank you for being with us. its been a long past couple of days for you. as an investigator what are your questions given the fact that we had the two full days of searching. its been called off until daylight and no detection of anything so far. >> well, theres a question that i have. we talked about with mh 370 the data burst that would go by way of satellite back down to the airline. n...

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Orange box. it doesnt look anything like a black box, but all the talk, we never see it. >> this is a race against time as searchers try to find this, find the pings, as peter doocy pointed out, it could be whale sounds. but before this battery dies, we should point out in the interest of accuracy, one of the reasons we are up against the deadline is because the malaysian government lied about their radar data. they didnt want to admit that their military radar picked up the jet. and so the sear...

Investigations at the moment. >> duncan, thanks. well, former ntsb investigator is joining me. greg, welcome back. no sign of the plane, does that surprise you? >> it does, but it doesnt. theyve been searching in an area they thought the radar data would at least provide them/clues. they found these oil slicks, but typically, if you look at egypt airplane 990, if you look at alaska air 261, twa 800, wherever there was an oil slick or slick from fuel there was always wreckage. this one doesnt h...

Cockpit in an earlier flight. there is is a lot looking into the background of these two guys. nothing has surfaced that raises any red flags, greta. >> any unusual cargo on that plane? >> no i havent heard anything about the cargo. that is one thing they need to check. there was one report that five people even checked up on to this flight and then didnt get on board. but the luggage did travel on that plane. but that does seem to be one of the lines of investigation look into cargo and if it h...

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That egyptair with the pilot did commit suicide. >> let me just briefly set this up if i can. egyptair, flight 990 crashed in 1999 off the coast new england. and it was later determined by the ntsb and you were leading the investigation, that it was pilot suicide. tell us what you did there and how you think that might apply here. >> the difference was, we had five different sets of radar, monitoring egyptair. we were able to recover the data recorder and the voice recorder nine days after the a...