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>> experts point to another mysterious case in that same region, the sinking of the australian worship, the "hmas sydney" it went down off the freemantle, australia, right off the -- right near super pers. now despite a massive search by the royal australian navy, there was no confirmed discovery from any of that vessels in the months and years after the disappearance, no bodies, nothing. search teams didn't find this wreck until 2008. asserts say a big ron for that is because the ocean currents are so inconsistent in that area. >> wow, brinen. i wonder if you've got even more pieces that you ...

Investigators to confirm it's from 370 but it would be almost impossible it not to be from 370 considering in the history of the 777 only one has crashed into the ocean and only one crashed in the southern hemisphere. on wednesday in toulouse france they will begin to investigate the flaperon and use state of the art technology to show whether the plane crashed in the sea or broke up in flight. what they won't be able to find the jumbo jet veered sharply off course. experts are also analyzing models showing the trade winds and ocean currents over the past 16 months in the indian ocean with the...

But from the marine life. now if the marine life was dead they won't be able to tell how long it had been on the beach but they can tell how long it had been in the water. those particular kind of barnacles, there are over 1,000 types of barnacles, but those are loose barnacles, at least that i can tell from the picture and they do you know they don't have to be in a particular part of the ocean. they have the ability to gather food from the ocean currents as they go along. they can tell that from the piece of the plane perhaps. >> how much confidence do you have in malaysian authorities, beca...

Sang anxious for for an answer. thank you for that. let's bring in safety analyst, former faa accident investigator and author of "why planes crash" and author of special projects in massachusetts. david, to you first, why has it taken more than 18 months do you think for any piece of this plain if it is indeed from mh370 to be found? >> well randy, it's a long way, it's over thousands of miles. and the ocean currents even though they move steadily they move slowly and not always in a straight line. so in fact i think early on some of the australian scientists predicted this is about the win...

Answers of why this happened can only be determined on the ground. >> cnn, los angeles. >> and we've more on the debris found on the coast of reunion island. meteorologist derek van dam joins us with more. derek, is it even feasible that mh370 debris could have traveled this far across the indian ocean? >> lynda, it is a reasonable question indeed. in fact we have to dig deep into this flaperon piece that they purportedly found, belonging to mh370. it is a device on the airplane that is highly buoyant. i researched this. we know this thing will float. when it enters the ocean currents known as...