1 00:00:21,083 --> 00:00:24,643 And that's where I saw the plane debris, around there. 2 00:00:34,763 --> 00:00:37,683 If it's from a crash, there are people who died. 3 00:00:38,283 --> 00:00:40,803 So we immediately thought of the families. 4 00:00:44,843 --> 00:00:47,603 That's when we got on the radio and called the police. 5 00:01:00,203 --> 00:01:02,083 Breaking news on the search 6 00:01:02,083 --> 00:01:04,243 for Malaysia Airlines flight 370... 7 00:01:04,243 --> 00:01:06,323 A piece of plane debris has washed up 8 00:01:06,323 --> 00:01:09,203 on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion. 9 00:01:09,203 --> 00:01:12,043 {\an8}But investigators believe the debris in the images 10 00:01:12,043 --> 00:01:16,563 {\an8}is consistent with a Boeing 777, the same as the missing Malaysia jet. 11 00:01:16,563 --> 00:01:21,203 {\an8}- This seems real. - If it's a 777 part, it's MH370. 12 00:01:21,203 --> 00:01:23,403 {\an8}There's no doubt. There's nothing missing. 13 00:01:23,403 --> 00:01:26,963 {\an8}No doubt. Also, it has indications it's been in the water for a long time. 14 00:01:26,963 --> 00:01:29,443 {\an8}It's a terrible day for the families. 15 00:01:49,403 --> 00:01:52,283 For me, the debris was the point 16 00:01:52,283 --> 00:01:54,123 at which I started thinking, 17 00:01:55,243 --> 00:01:57,203 "Fine, they're not coming back." 18 00:01:57,723 --> 00:02:03,723 We faced something that forced us to accept that they were here. 19 00:02:07,003 --> 00:02:08,043 It's accepting 20 00:02:09,643 --> 00:02:11,963 that they won't come back. That's it. 21 00:02:36,843 --> 00:02:38,763 We don't have the answers. 22 00:02:38,763 --> 00:02:42,523 This is one of the great mysteries in aviation history. 23 00:02:56,203 --> 00:02:59,603 It is with a very heavy heart 24 00:03:00,163 --> 00:03:01,403 that I must tell you 25 00:03:02,083 --> 00:03:08,723 that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed 26 00:03:09,643 --> 00:03:13,803 that the aircraft debris found on Réunion Island 27 00:03:14,443 --> 00:03:18,203 is indeed from MH370. 28 00:03:18,203 --> 00:03:21,763 It's a huge break in the biggest aviation mystery in decades. 29 00:03:32,043 --> 00:03:34,483 The area where they think the plane came down. 30 00:03:34,483 --> 00:03:40,003 All of those white dots simulate possible pieces of debris coming off MH370. 31 00:07:24,803 --> 00:07:28,083 {\an8}There are new developments tonight involving that piece of debris, 32 00:07:28,083 --> 00:07:31,083 {\an8}discovered off Eastern Africa, possibly belonging 33 00:07:31,083 --> 00:07:34,163 {\an8}to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. 34 00:07:34,163 --> 00:07:37,883 {\an8}Malaysian authorities reiterated today that photographic evidence suggests 35 00:07:37,883 --> 00:07:40,763 {\an8}it likely came from a Boeing 777. 36 00:07:40,763 --> 00:07:43,803 {\an8}And we're hearing more from the American who found it. 37 00:07:43,803 --> 00:07:46,443 This is definitely from an airplane. 38 00:07:46,443 --> 00:07:48,403 This could be from a Boeing. 39 00:07:48,923 --> 00:07:51,483 This could be from a 777. 40 00:07:52,163 --> 00:07:53,803 This could possibly be 41 00:07:53,803 --> 00:07:55,803 from Malaysia 370. 42 00:07:58,523 --> 00:08:00,403 From the pictures shown, 43 00:08:00,403 --> 00:08:03,443 there is a high probability of, uh... 44 00:08:03,443 --> 00:08:06,123 the plane debris is from a Boeing 777. 45 00:08:27,483 --> 00:08:30,763 Blaine Gibson has found at least 20 pieces of wreckage. 46 00:08:30,763 --> 00:08:35,523 Seven pieces are classified as almost certainly from MH370. 47 00:08:35,523 --> 00:08:39,163 Another ten are likely or highly likely to be off the plane. 48 00:08:39,163 --> 00:08:44,603 This is by far the most significant piece that has been found. 49 00:09:03,003 --> 00:09:09,963 This piece of debris, which we believe is from Malaysia 370... 50 00:09:11,403 --> 00:09:12,923 Oh. Yeah, look. 51 00:09:12,923 --> 00:09:14,643 Oh, my God. 52 00:09:32,003 --> 00:09:34,243 {\an8}He's a modern-day Indiana Jones 53 00:09:34,243 --> 00:09:37,403 {\an8}who spent over two years scouring the world on a mission 54 00:09:37,403 --> 00:09:39,803 {\an8}to find answers about the Malaysian plane. 55 00:10:17,843 --> 00:10:22,403 Korean Airlines flight number 007 with 269 people aboard, 56 00:10:22,403 --> 00:10:26,683 was on a flight from New York to Seoul via Alaska and Tokyo. 57 00:10:26,683 --> 00:10:28,763 The state department says the plane was shot down 58 00:10:28,763 --> 00:10:30,843 near the Soviet Sakhalin Island. 59 00:10:37,403 --> 00:10:40,403 Japanese radio monitoring shows the Soviet jets 60 00:10:40,403 --> 00:10:42,003 were controlled from the ground. 61 00:10:42,923 --> 00:10:46,883 It's now a race against time for the retrieval of the black box. 62 00:12:03,963 --> 00:12:06,203 The first time I heard about Blaine 63 00:12:06,203 --> 00:12:09,003 was when he found his first debris. 64 00:12:10,203 --> 00:12:12,163 It's a very funny story. 65 00:12:12,163 --> 00:12:16,283 He gets on a boat, lands on a beach thinking, "Maybe there's debris there." 66 00:12:16,283 --> 00:12:18,683 He spends two hours on that beach, finds debris, 67 00:12:19,843 --> 00:12:21,003 and conveniently, 68 00:12:21,523 --> 00:12:23,523 all the English-speaking media are there too. 69 00:12:26,043 --> 00:12:26,883 Weird, huh? 70 00:12:27,403 --> 00:12:28,963 What a coincidence! 71 00:12:30,923 --> 00:12:32,523 On a deserted beach. 72 00:12:34,083 --> 00:12:35,403 That's Blaine for you. 73 00:16:35,763 --> 00:16:42,083 An international team of experts have conclusively confirmed 74 00:16:42,083 --> 00:16:47,483 that the aircraft debris is indeed from MH370. 75 00:16:48,603 --> 00:16:51,763 The connection between the debris and the plane... 76 00:16:52,883 --> 00:16:55,003 If you look at what we've been told, 77 00:16:55,003 --> 00:16:59,003 it's pretty thin. "It's the same type of paint as the plane." 78 00:17:01,443 --> 00:17:02,763 Or when they tell us, 79 00:17:02,763 --> 00:17:06,523 "It was the only crash in the area, so it must be the plane." 80 00:17:10,123 --> 00:17:14,923 The proof of a connection between the debris 81 00:17:14,923 --> 00:17:18,003 and the plane wasn't convincing. 82 00:18:26,003 --> 00:18:29,723 When we the families went to Madagascar ourselves 83 00:18:31,683 --> 00:18:33,283 to search for the debris, 84 00:18:36,923 --> 00:18:40,203 I had mixed feelings. 85 00:18:44,603 --> 00:18:47,283 A kind of sorrow, 86 00:18:48,883 --> 00:18:50,243 anger... 87 00:18:53,723 --> 00:18:54,723 {\an8}A kind of... 88 00:18:57,203 --> 00:18:58,043 {\an8}fear. 89 00:19:00,883 --> 00:19:02,483 And the feeling... 90 00:19:04,603 --> 00:19:06,123 of missing... 91 00:19:08,323 --> 00:19:09,163 my mother. 92 00:19:09,163 --> 00:19:10,163 Jiang Hui. 93 00:19:11,883 --> 00:19:13,643 - The same place. - Same place. 94 00:19:13,643 --> 00:19:15,643 MH370 cove. 95 00:19:21,723 --> 00:19:22,563 It's the same. 96 00:19:24,083 --> 00:19:26,643 When I had the debris in my hand, 97 00:19:27,283 --> 00:19:28,243 I thought, 98 00:19:29,403 --> 00:19:32,123 "This was probably the thing 99 00:19:32,963 --> 00:19:36,603 that was closest to my mother in her last moments." 100 00:19:38,043 --> 00:19:40,323 This is an interesting piece. 101 00:19:40,323 --> 00:19:41,443 Yeah. 102 00:20:04,723 --> 00:20:06,443 Over the past two years, 103 00:20:06,443 --> 00:20:11,283 everything's been thrown at the search in the plane's most likely resting place, 104 00:20:11,283 --> 00:20:15,163 according to satellite imaging from the British company Inmarsat. 105 00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:21,003 120,000 square kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean. 106 00:20:21,003 --> 00:20:23,683 But nothing has been found there yet. 107 00:21:10,083 --> 00:21:13,003 Maybe they genuinely wanted to keep going, sure. 108 00:21:13,003 --> 00:21:14,043 But... 109 00:21:16,123 --> 00:21:19,683 No, there was no chance they'd ever find the plane. 110 00:21:19,683 --> 00:21:20,603 No chance. 111 00:21:22,003 --> 00:21:23,323 The plane’s not there. 112 00:21:44,163 --> 00:21:46,483 There is this explosive new report 113 00:21:46,483 --> 00:21:50,123 that suggests the pilot who flew the downed MH370 plane 114 00:21:50,123 --> 00:21:54,843 flew a similar route on a home simulator just a month before this plane went down. 115 00:22:20,363 --> 00:22:22,203 During the investigation, 116 00:22:22,203 --> 00:22:27,283 hard drives from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of MH370, 117 00:22:27,283 --> 00:22:31,763 {\an8}they were obtained by investigators, given to the FBI. 118 00:22:31,763 --> 00:22:35,083 {\an8}The FBI then did a thorough analysis of those hard drives 119 00:22:35,083 --> 00:22:38,003 {\an8}and were able to find data points. According to this article... 120 00:22:45,803 --> 00:22:50,163 The yellow line is the presumed flight path that the plane took. 121 00:22:50,163 --> 00:22:53,643 The red line is the one that was on that simulator. 122 00:23:11,483 --> 00:23:14,403 This could be the strongest evidence thus far. 123 00:24:07,603 --> 00:24:10,243 The pilot flew a simulated flight that... 124 00:24:30,123 --> 00:24:32,163 That simulated flight... 125 00:24:38,043 --> 00:24:40,843 We've spoken to families this morning about this news, 126 00:24:40,843 --> 00:24:42,683 they say they are frustrated by it. 127 00:24:42,683 --> 00:24:46,363 When the incident happened, the pilot's flight simulator 128 00:24:46,363 --> 00:24:49,523 was seized by the FBI at his home. 129 00:24:50,643 --> 00:24:55,243 People need to understand that the FBI had this information before anyone else. 130 00:24:56,323 --> 00:24:57,923 Then, a few years later, 131 00:24:57,923 --> 00:25:01,723 "Ah! On the pilot’s flight simulator is the same route he flew." 132 00:25:03,923 --> 00:25:05,643 The FBI was up to something. 133 00:25:06,163 --> 00:25:09,843 For me, once again, it's more proof the Americans are involved. 134 00:25:10,963 --> 00:25:15,323 The FBI never handed anything either to the official inquiry in Malaysia 135 00:25:15,323 --> 00:25:17,083 or to the French judges. 136 00:25:17,083 --> 00:25:18,483 Not even one report. 137 00:25:19,203 --> 00:25:21,483 So we’d like to know what they did. 138 00:25:29,603 --> 00:25:33,323 I mean, the FBI isn't famous for its culture 139 00:25:33,323 --> 00:25:34,563 of transparency. 140 00:25:35,163 --> 00:25:38,083 But in this specific case, uh... 141 00:25:38,083 --> 00:25:42,643 we're talking about a request for judicial cooperation, 142 00:25:42,643 --> 00:25:46,723 as part of a judicial investigation benefitting from confidentiality. 143 00:25:48,763 --> 00:25:52,443 I find it pretty scandalous that in a case such as this one, 144 00:25:53,083 --> 00:25:56,683 we witness this much bad faith and such a silence. Really. 145 00:26:04,283 --> 00:26:06,163 I believe Malaysia was 146 00:26:06,163 --> 00:26:09,283 what we call in French, "The Stooge" in the story. 147 00:26:12,363 --> 00:26:17,563 They were updated, kept quiet somehow. 148 00:26:18,643 --> 00:26:22,363 So it's the Americans leading the investigation from the outset. 149 00:26:23,043 --> 00:26:28,283 It's the British who are locating the plane, with Inmarsat. 150 00:26:29,283 --> 00:26:30,123 Okay. 151 00:26:32,443 --> 00:26:34,403 And it's the Australians leading the search. 152 00:26:34,403 --> 00:26:35,963 Everybody’s locked out. 153 00:26:36,483 --> 00:26:38,203 "Move on, nothing to see here." 154 00:26:38,203 --> 00:26:39,123 Nothing. 155 00:26:39,763 --> 00:26:40,603 Zero. 156 00:28:07,283 --> 00:28:10,283 So here’s what they told us after a week, 157 00:28:10,283 --> 00:28:16,163 "Our military radar saw the plane that night, fly back over Malaysia." 158 00:28:16,683 --> 00:28:21,443 But... we've been given no proof that the Malaysians really saw the plane 159 00:28:21,443 --> 00:28:22,843 on the radar that night. 160 00:28:22,843 --> 00:28:25,603 - Utter confusion. - I don't think so. 161 00:28:25,603 --> 00:28:28,763 the key elements don’t come with proof attached. 162 00:28:29,283 --> 00:28:32,283 So why believe the official story 163 00:28:32,283 --> 00:28:34,963 when they're withholding essential pieces of evidence? 164 00:28:35,563 --> 00:28:38,243 Excuse me? Why won't you speak to the relatives? 165 00:38:14,243 --> 00:38:17,803 Malaysia 370, maintaining level 350. 166 00:38:44,683 --> 00:38:48,323 Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9. 167 00:38:48,323 --> 00:38:49,243 Good night. 168 00:38:57,283 --> 00:38:59,763 Uh, good night, Malaysian 370. 169 00:44:15,043 --> 00:44:18,403 Jeff Wise joins me now. Thanks so much for being with us. 170 00:44:18,403 --> 00:44:21,123 First of all, do you really think it went to Kazakhstan? 171 00:45:00,323 --> 00:45:03,163 {\an8}The search is over for the missing Malaysian airliner 172 00:45:03,163 --> 00:45:05,083 {\an8}that vanished nearly three years ago. 173 00:45:05,083 --> 00:45:07,803 {\an8}Investigators overnight officially suspended the effort 174 00:45:07,803 --> 00:45:11,603 {\an8}to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard. 175 00:45:11,603 --> 00:45:17,763 We need to suspend the search until further credible evidence. 176 00:45:31,843 --> 00:45:36,043 {\an8}Voice 370, a support group for next of kin, said in a statement, 177 00:45:36,043 --> 00:45:40,163 {\an8}"Commercial planes cannot be allowed to disappear without a trace." 178 00:46:53,683 --> 00:46:56,403 Investigators released their final report overnight 179 00:46:56,403 --> 00:46:57,443 on the disappearance 180 00:46:57,443 --> 00:47:00,003 of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. 181 00:47:00,003 --> 00:47:03,723 The investigative team says the Boeing 777 was airworthy. 182 00:47:04,683 --> 00:47:06,923 The pilot was very competent 183 00:47:06,923 --> 00:47:10,003 and showed no signs of stress or behavioral changes. 184 00:47:10,883 --> 00:47:15,723 And they cannot rule out unlawful interference by a third party. 185 00:47:15,723 --> 00:47:17,843 Good evening... 186 00:47:17,843 --> 00:47:21,003 We are unable to determine with any certainty 187 00:47:21,603 --> 00:47:27,403 the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its far flight plan route. 188 00:47:46,123 --> 00:47:51,003 It is so frustrating that every time we come for a meeting like this, 189 00:47:51,003 --> 00:47:56,643 nobody, nobody is able to answer any of our questions. 190 00:48:13,923 --> 00:48:14,923 Eventually, 191 00:48:14,923 --> 00:48:19,003 even the official investigation stopped short of accusing the pilot. 192 00:48:19,003 --> 00:48:20,483 They're not saying it anymore. 193 00:48:21,723 --> 00:48:24,563 The only conclusion is that it wasn't the pilot. 194 00:48:24,563 --> 00:48:26,163 It obviously wasn't the pilot. 195 00:48:31,603 --> 00:48:34,643 So, the Malaysian official investigation is over. 196 00:48:36,683 --> 00:48:38,923 They don’t have an answer but they're done anyway. 197 00:48:42,843 --> 00:48:45,243 That's what's good about the French justice system. 198 00:48:45,243 --> 00:48:48,043 They can't stop, they're not allowed to stop 199 00:48:48,843 --> 00:48:53,763 until they find the truth. So that’s good, and it works for us. 200 00:48:53,763 --> 00:48:56,443 I don’t want to stop either until we have an answer. 201 00:48:57,163 --> 00:48:59,523 If it takes ten years, then it takes ten years. 202 00:50:38,723 --> 00:50:41,763 For all of these families who've lived in this state of limbo 203 00:50:41,763 --> 00:50:43,243 ever since that day, 204 00:50:43,243 --> 00:50:45,683 it seems, sadly, that that state of not knowing 205 00:50:45,683 --> 00:50:48,163 is going to continue, uh, for the foreseeable future. 206 00:51:30,683 --> 00:51:33,563 I believe there are people out there 207 00:51:34,683 --> 00:51:37,483 who know something, who know the true story. 208 00:51:42,443 --> 00:51:44,883 We're still here and waiting for answers. 209 00:51:45,963 --> 00:51:47,323 We want answers.