but, the prosecutor, the french prosecutor, the malaysian prosecutor, the united states ntsb, they re not going to get here until a few days time and that s where they re planning to meet. what are we hearing from the families? it is very good that they re using an abundance of caution here and they re not just coming out and saying anything definitive. for the families, this is the most tangible piece of that plane potentially, and what has happened to their loved ones. what are they saying at this hour? i m glad you mentioned them. it is families that are holding on to everything that anybody is saying about this flaperon, watching it come down here. saying we don t want maybes and we don t want we think. we want 100% confirmation that this is from mh370. and there s a lot of talk, poppy, about closure.
hour. among those analyzing the part, experts from boeing and also from the ntsb, they are all headed to france right now. many believe that the piece is the first real solid evidence from that flight that vanished nearly 17 months ago. experts believe the piece we re looking at is called a flaperon, and people cleaning the beach found it on the french controlled island of reunion. on the opposite side of the indian ocean where it was last known to be seen. they are going to be analyzing, expecting, taking apart this plane part. what do we know at this hour in terms of when we can expect to hear some of the test results? because i ve been hearing they weren t even really going to dig in, if you will, until wednesday. reporter: yeah, that s right, poppy. it may take quite some time until all of the officials that are flying in to france to take a look at this piece get together to look at it.
believes they have been giving them as much information as they can but that he just doesn t believe that they re going to be able to give them what they want, which is exactly where the plane s location is. do you see that? well, that s true. that is what they want. right. and certainly that is what all of this effort wants to deliver to them. but, no, i can understand where they fight feel they ve given him information. i don t think they were cognizant of how much briefing and how much information families want and usually get in accident investigations. and these family members have talked to families from other accidents. they know what the standard is. other family members have gone over there to help them so what they need to understand is they have been told they re entitled to a lot and they get a lot in other countries. daily or twice daily briefings from the united states ntsb, for example. 50 days in, they still don t