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Through not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones on that day in march back in 2014 as people have come up short, as investigators have been tirelessly searching for answers. bill nealy is the nbc chief aviation correspondent. bill i assume you could hear what was going on with the press conference but now we have the definitive conclusive evidence that the fragment is from the missing plane. >> yes. we weren't expecting that. that is stunning news and it will be stunning news for the relatives of the passengers and crew on board that plane. thomas it is the great aviation mystery ...

>> they were better than us on that day. i don't know how much of an advantage one way or the other, how much it would have made a difference in the game. >> we should mention the colts suspected the patriots were using deflated balls during a regular season game. the issue was reported to the league. new england won that game, as well. 42-20. now we head down under for a look at a rarely seen creature, a shark actually. yeah. that, ladies and gentlemen, is what is called a -- shark caught off australia last month. >> it is six feet long. they have 300 teeth, a body that looks like an eel an...

Sand bar off australia. it was meant to get the attention of rescuers. their boat drifted away stranding them nine hours. they were pulled in to a helicopter and taken to safety. those are some of our top stories on this thursday, april 24th. >> announcer: this is abc "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> a regular gilligan's island. >> they got off safe and sound. >> they tried to get to their boat but it was going too far away. luckily they are safe. >> great story. >> good morning to you. good thursday morning to you. we do begin this half hour with that teenager stowaway. a...

But then there is the underwater current. that moves in this counterclockwise direction across the indian ocean and right there where that is it potentially pulls that debris towards australia. that's the underwater current. those winds and all those storms that moved through cause these little eddies to move and development. that's a circulation motion that can kind of trap that debris in one spot. without that doubt that debris is probably 100 miles away from where it was even when that picture was taken four days allege. that's one of the things that makes that so difficult to calculate. if...

Design for this but it was giving bursts. even though there was no data. and we can time those bursts and we can get a measurement. that's the measurement that they came up with. and that's why they drew this arc. this semicircle of where the plane may have gone. let me take you back to the map. we'll take out those arcs and now let me take you down here. so the ntsb initially, that's the national transportation safety board, initially had an area off australia that was huge. 370,000 square miles. and the plan was that would take at least six weeks to search. but in the last 24 hours, they cam...