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So there s a lot in here that the public has not been exposed to before. you talk about one man, blaine gibson, who has discovered roughly a third of the debris that has been found from the plane since the crash. how is a civilian who is unaffiliated with any official investigation the one who is making these discoveries? amazing story, actually. blaine gibson is the lawyer from seattle who has been wandering the world all his life, wears a great big fedora, an adventurer, and he decided he was going to find debris on beaches. he started looking for it. nobody else is looking for it. and he went to talk to some oceanographers in australia who told him where to look. he went there, madagascar and mozambique. and sure enough, started finding pieces. he also put out a network. he told local people, fishermen, people like that, he would pay for pieces they found so people ....
Currents work. they are optimistic they can help solve this great international mystery and even find more debris. that big piece of aircraft debris that has been found is in france and it will be examined by french aviation experts who are hoping to unlock its secrets. they packed it carefully. every square inch of the aircraft wing flap may be vital in answering what happened to malaysia airlines 370. the degree has arrived in france to be analyzed at a specialist defense lab. french police are searching reunion s beaches for more debris. locals are making discoveries, finding pieces of plastic, taken in by police as evidence. the man who found the aircraft part and a a bettered suitcase here found water bottles from china and indonesia, half pa t passengers were chinese. i hope to find a lot more debris he says to help solve this mystery. ....
A digital camera who has done a panoramic view knows how hard that can be to get everything just right so it s not easy to do this but there it is. incredible. the technology is just amazing. david gallo, thank you so much. for all the bluefin-21 can learn it s only there to take sonar pictures. the next step is when debaris is found to send down other submersibles that can do more. gary tuchman got an up-close look at one vehicle that played a key role in finding pieces of space shuttle challenger. here s what he saw. reporter: at first glance it resembles a spacecraft more than anything else but this is a research sub that has combed the seas doing everything from medical research to ship and aircraft recovery. we have an array of light systems on the sub. so you can turn on whichever light you need. reporter: jimmy nelson used to spend about 170 days a year on the sub. the johnson sea link submersible as it s known. it s now retired at florida ....
It s only there to take sonar pictures. the next step is to send down other submersibles that can do more. gary tuchman got an upclose look at one vehicle that played a key role in finding pieces of space shuttle challenger. here s what he saw. reporter: at first glance it reis semables a spacecraft more than anything else but this is a research sub that has combed the seas doing everything from medical research to ship and aircraft recovery. we have an array of light systems on the sub. so you can turn on whichever light you need. reporter: jimmy nelson used to spend 170 days a year on the sub. the johnson seaing submersible. ready to go. ready to go. but other manned sea vehicles maybe next to line to aid in the malaysia airlines search. if this or another submersible can get where the wreckage is, how effect i have do you think at this time could ....
Area down from the size of the state of massachusetts to maybe the size of the city of boston. down on the bottom to start finding pieces. there are some sophisticated sup submersibles out there today, robotics, that can go down and cut the pieces of the fuselage open to get out what we need to. any investigator is not only going to want to recover the black boxes but the cockpit section, perhaps the leading edge wing juncture points to see how sharp the tearing was that will give us a good idea how hard the airplane impact ed the water if it went in from low altitude at a shallow angle or high altitude at a sharp angle. so it s this is never going to be easy. sure. but it s just a degree of tift question. you re narrowing in increasingly and, john, if we are able to find a piece of debris and we re able to determine that it is a wing or some other part of the missing aircraft, what information will we be able to glean from that discovery? well, if you look back at air ....