1 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,600 And that's where I saw the plane debris, around there. 2 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,640 If it's from a crash, there are people who died. 3 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,760 So we immediately thought of the families. 4 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,560 That's when we got on the radio and called the police. 5 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,040 Breaking news on the search 6 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,200 for Malaysia Airlines flight 370... 7 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,280 A piece of plane debris has washed up 8 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,160 on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion. 9 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,000 But investigators believe the debris in the images 10 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:16,520 is consistent with a Boeing 777, the same as the missing Malaysia jet. 11 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,160 - This seems real. - If it's a 777 part, it's MH370. 12 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,360 There's no doubt. There's nothing missing. 13 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,920 No doubt. Also, it has indications it's been in the water for a long time. 14 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,400 It's a terrible day for the families. 15 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,240 For me, the debris was the point 16 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,080 at which I started thinking, 17 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,160 "Fine, they're not coming back." 18 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,680 We faced something that forced us to accept that they were here. 19 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,000 It's accepting 20 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,920 that they won't come back. That's it. 21 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,720 We don't have the answers. 22 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,480 This is one of the great mysteries in aviation history. 23 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,560 It is with a very heavy heart 24 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,360 that I must tell you 25 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:08,680 that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed 26 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,760 that the aircraft debris found on Réunion Island 27 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,160 is indeed from MH370. 28 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,720 It's a huge break in the biggest aviation mystery in decades. 29 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,440 The area where they think the plane came down. 30 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,960 All of those white dots simulate possible pieces of debris coming off MH370. 31 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,040 There are new developments tonight involving that piece of debris, 32 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,040 discovered off Eastern Africa, possibly belonging 33 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,120 to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. 34 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,840 Malaysian authorities reiterated today that photographic evidence suggests 35 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,720 it likely came from a Boeing 777. 36 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,760 And we're hearing more from the American who found it. 37 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,400 This is definitely from an airplane. 38 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,360 This could be from a Boeing. 39 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,440 This could be from a 777. 40 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:53,760 This could possibly be 41 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,760 from Malaysia 370. 42 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,360 From the pictures shown, 43 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,400 there is a high probability of, uh... 44 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,080 the plane debris is from a Boeing 777. 45 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,720 Blaine Gibson has found at least 20 pieces of wreckage. 46 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,480 Seven pieces are classified as almost certainly from MH370. 47 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:39,120 Another ten are likely or highly likely to be off the plane. 48 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,560 This is by far the most significant piece that has been found. 49 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:09,920 This piece of debris, which we believe is from Malaysia 370... 50 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,880 Oh. Yeah, look. 51 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,600 Oh, my God. 52 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,200 He's a modern-day Indiana Jones 53 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,360 who spent over two years scouring the world on a mission 54 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,760 to find answers about the Malaysian plane. 55 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,360 Korean Airlines flight number 007 with 269 people aboard, 56 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,640 was on a flight from New York to Seoul via Alaska and Tokyo. 57 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,720 The state department says the plane was shot down 58 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,800 near the Soviet Sakhalin Island. 59 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Japanese radio monitoring shows the Soviet jets 60 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:41,960 were controlled from the ground. 61 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,840 It's now a race against time for the retrieval of the black box. 62 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,160 The first time I heard about Blaine 63 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,960 was when he found his first debris. 64 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,120 It's a very funny story. 65 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,240 He gets on a boat, lands on a beach thinking, "Maybe there's debris there." 66 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,640 He spends two hours on that beach, finds debris, 67 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:20,960 and conveniently, 68 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,480 all the English-speaking media are there too. 69 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Weird, huh? 70 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:28,920 What a coincidence! 71 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,480 On a deserted beach. 72 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,360 That's Blaine for you. 73 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:42,040 An international team of experts have conclusively confirmed 74 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:47,440 that the aircraft debris is indeed from MH370. 75 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,720 The connection between the debris and the plane... 76 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,960 If you look at what we've been told, 77 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,960 it's pretty thin. "It's the same type of paint as the plane." 78 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:02,720 Or when they tell us, 79 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,480 "It was the only crash in the area, so it must be the plane." 80 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,880 The proof of a connection between the debris 81 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,960 and the plane wasn't convincing. 82 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,680 When we the families went to Madagascar ourselves 83 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,240 to search for the debris, 84 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,160 I had mixed feelings. 85 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,240 A kind of sorrow, 86 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,200 anger... 87 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:54,680 A kind of... 88 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,160 fear. 89 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,440 And the feeling... 90 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,080 of missing... 91 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,120 my mother. 92 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,200 Jiang Hui. 93 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,600 - The same place. - Same place. 94 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,600 MH370 cove. 95 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,680 It's the same. 96 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,600 When I had the debris in my hand, 97 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:28,240 I thought, 98 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:32,080 "This was probably the thing 99 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,560 that was closest to my mother in her last moments." 100 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,280 This is an interesting piece. 101 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,400 Yeah. 102 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,400 Over the past two years, 103 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,240 everything's been thrown at the search in the plane's most likely resting place, 104 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,120 according to satellite imaging from the British company Inmarsat. 105 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:20,960 120,000 square kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean. 106 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,640 But nothing has been found there yet. 107 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,960 Maybe they genuinely wanted to keep going, sure. 108 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,040 But... 109 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,640 No, there was no chance they'd ever find the plane. 110 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,720 No chance. 111 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,280 The plane's not there. 112 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,440 There is this explosive new report 113 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,080 that suggests the pilot who flew the downed MH370 plane 114 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,800 flew a similar route on a home simulator just a month before this plane went down. 115 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,160 During the investigation, 116 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:27,240 hard drives from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of MH370, 117 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,720 they were obtained by investigators, given to the FBI. 118 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,040 The FBI then did a thorough analysis of those hard drives 119 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,960 and were able to find data points. According to this article... 120 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,120 The yellow line is the presumed flight path that the plane took. 121 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,600 The red line is the one that was on that simulator. 122 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,360 This could be the strongest evidence thus far. 123 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,200 The pilot flew a simulated flight that... 124 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,120 That simulated flight... 125 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,800 We've spoken to families this morning about this news, 126 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,640 they say they are frustrated by it. 127 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,320 When the incident happened, the pilot's flight simulator 128 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,480 was seized by the FBI at his home. 129 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,200 People need to understand that the FBI had this information before anyone else. 130 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,880 Then, a few years later, 131 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,680 "Ah! On the pilot's flight simulator is the same route he flew." 132 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,600 The FBI was up to something. 133 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,800 For me, once again, it's more proof the Americans are involved. 134 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,280 The FBI never handed anything either to the official inquiry in Malaysia 135 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:17,040 or to the French judges. 136 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,440 Not even one report. 137 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,440 So we'd like to know what they did. 138 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,280 I mean, the FBI isn't famous for its culture 139 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:34,520 of transparency. 140 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,040 But in this specific case, uh... 141 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:42,600 we're talking about a request for judicial cooperation, 142 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,680 as part of a judicial investigation benefitting from confidentiality. 143 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,400 I find it pretty scandalous that in a case such as this one, 144 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,640 we witness this much bad faith and such a silence. Really. 145 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,120 I believe Malaysia was 146 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,240 what we call in French, "The Stooge" in the story. 147 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,520 They were updated, kept quiet somehow. 148 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,320 So it's the Americans leading the investigation from the outset. 149 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,240 It's the British who are locating the plane, with Inmarsat. 150 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,240 Okay. 151 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,360 And it's the Australians leading the search. 152 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,920 Everybody's locked out. 153 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,160 "Move on, nothing to see here." 154 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,240 Nothing. 155 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:40,720 Zero. 156 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,240 So here's what they told us after a week, 157 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:16,120 "Our military radar saw the plane that night, fly back over Malaysia." 158 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,400 But... we've been given no proof that the Malaysians really saw the plane 159 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:22,800 on the radar that night. 160 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,560 - Utter confusion. - I don't think so. 161 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,720 the key elements don't come with proof attached. 162 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,240 So why believe the official story 163 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,920 when they're withholding essential pieces of evidence? 164 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,200 Excuse me? Why won't you speak to the relatives? 165 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,760 Malaysia 370, maintaining level 350. 166 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,280 Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9. 167 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,360 Good night. 168 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,720 Uh, good night, Malaysian 370. 169 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,360 Jeff Wise joins me now. Thanks so much for being with us. 170 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,080 First of all, do you really think it went to Kazakhstan? 171 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,120 The search is over for the missing Malaysian airliner 172 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,040 that vanished nearly three years ago. 173 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,760 Investigators overnight officially suspended the effort 174 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,560 to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard. 175 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:17,720 We need to suspend the search until further credible evidence. 176 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:36,000 Voice 370, a support group for next of kin, said in a statement, 177 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,120 "Commercial planes cannot be allowed to disappear without a trace." 178 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,360 Investigators released their final report overnight 179 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,440 on the disappearance 180 00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,960 of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. 181 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,680 The investigative team says the Boeing 777 was airworthy. 182 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,880 The pilot was very competent 183 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,960 and showed no signs of stress or behavioral changes. 184 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,680 And they cannot rule out unlawful interference by a third party. 185 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,800 Good evening... 186 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,960 We are unable to determine with any certainty 187 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:27,360 the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its far flight plan route. 188 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,960 It is so frustrating that every time we come for a meeting like this, 189 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:56,600 nobody, nobody is able to answer any of our questions. 190 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:14,880 Eventually, 191 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,960 even the official investigation stopped short of accusing the pilot. 192 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,440 They're not saying it anymore. 193 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,520 The only conclusion is that it wasn't the pilot. 194 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,120 It obviously wasn't the pilot. 195 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,600 So, the Malaysian official investigation is over. 196 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,880 They don't have an answer but they're done anyway. 197 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,200 That's what's good about the French justice system. 198 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,000 They can't stop, they're not allowed to stop 199 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,720 until they find the truth. So that's good, and it works for us. 200 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,400 I don't want to stop either until we have an answer. 201 00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,480 If it takes ten years, then it takes ten years. 202 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,720 For all of these families who've lived in this state of limbo 203 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,200 ever since that day, 204 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,640 it seems, sadly, that that state of not knowing 205 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:48,120 is going to continue, uh, for the foreseeable future. 206 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,520 I believe there are people out there 207 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,440 who know something, who know the true story. 208 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,840 We're still here and waiting for answers. 209 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,280 We want answers.