And that's where I saw the plane debris, around there.
If it's from a crash, there are people who died.
So we immediately thought of the families.
That's when we got on the radio and called the police.
Breaking news on the search
for Malaysia Airlines flight 370...
A piece of plane debris has washed up
on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion.
But investigators believe the debris in the images
is consistent with a Boeing 777, the same as the missing Malaysia jet.
- This seems real. - If it's a 777 part, it's MH370.
There's no doubt. There's nothing missing.
No doubt. Also, it has indications it's been in the water for a long time.
It's a terrible day for the families.
For me, the debris was the point
at which I started thinking,
"Fine, they're not coming back."
We faced something that forced us to accept that they were here.
It's accepting
that they won't come back. That's it.
We don't have the answers.
This is one of the great mysteries in aviation history.
It is with a very heavy heart
that I must tell you
that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed
that the aircraft debris found on Réunion Island
is indeed from MH370.
It's a huge break in the biggest aviation mystery in decades.
The area where they think the plane came down.
All of those white dots simulate possible pieces of debris coming off MH370.
There are new developments tonight involving that piece of debris,
discovered off Eastern Africa, possibly belonging
to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
Malaysian authorities reiterated today that photographic evidence suggests
it likely came from a Boeing 777.
And we're hearing more from the American who found it.
This is definitely from an airplane.
This could be from a Boeing.
This could be from a 777.
This could possibly be
from Malaysia 370.
From the pictures shown,
there is a high probability of, uh...
the plane debris is from a Boeing 777.
Blaine Gibson has found at least 20 pieces of wreckage.
Seven pieces are classified as almost certainly from MH370.
Another ten are likely or highly likely to be off the plane.
This is by far the most significant piece that has been found.
This piece of debris, which we believe is from Malaysia 370...
Oh. Yeah, look.
Oh, my God.
He's a modern-day Indiana Jones
who spent over two years scouring the world on a mission
to find answers about the Malaysian plane.
Korean Airlines flight number 007 with 269 people aboard,
was on a flight from New York to Seoul via Alaska and Tokyo.
The state department says the plane was shot down
near the Soviet Sakhalin Island.
Japanese radio monitoring shows the Soviet jets
were controlled from the ground.
It's now a race against time for the retrieval of the black box.
The first time I heard about Blaine
was when he found his first debris.
It's a very funny story.
He gets on a boat, lands on a beach thinking, "Maybe there's debris there."
He spends two hours on that beach, finds debris,
and conveniently,
all the English-speaking media are there too.
Weird, huh?
What a coincidence!
On a deserted beach.
That's Blaine for you.
An international team of experts have conclusively confirmed
that the aircraft debris is indeed from MH370.
The connection between the debris and the plane...
If you look at what we've been told,
it's pretty thin. "It's the same type of paint as the plane."
Or when they tell us,
"It was the only crash in the area, so it must be the plane."
The proof of a connection between the debris
and the plane wasn't convincing.
When we the families went to Madagascar ourselves
to search for the debris,
I had mixed feelings.
A kind of sorrow,
anger...
A kind of...
fear.
And the feeling...
of missing...
my mother.
Jiang Hui.
- The same place. - Same place.
MH370 cove.
It's the same.
When I had the debris in my hand,
I thought,
"This was probably the thing
that was closest to my mother in her last moments."
This is an interesting piece.
Yeah.
Over the past two years,
everything's been thrown at the search in the plane's most likely resting place,
according to satellite imaging from the British company Inmarsat.
120,000 square kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean.
But nothing has been found there yet.
Maybe they genuinely wanted to keep going, sure.
But...
No, there was no chance they'd ever find the plane.
No chance.
The plane’s not there.
There is this explosive new report
that suggests the pilot who flew the downed MH370 plane
flew a similar route on a home simulator just a month before this plane went down.
During the investigation,
hard drives from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of MH370,
they were obtained by investigators, given to the FBI.
The FBI then did a thorough analysis of those hard drives
and were able to find data points. According to this article...
The yellow line is the presumed flight path that the plane took.
The red line is the one that was on that simulator.
This could be the strongest evidence thus far.
The pilot flew a simulated flight that...
That simulated flight...
We've spoken to families this morning about this news,
they say they are frustrated by it.
When the incident happened, the pilot's flight simulator
was seized by the FBI at his home.
People need to understand that the FBI had this information before anyone else.
Then, a few years later,
"Ah! On the pilot’s flight simulator is the same route he flew."
The FBI was up to something.
For me, once again, it's more proof the Americans are involved.
The FBI never handed anything either to the official inquiry in Malaysia
or to the French judges.
Not even one report.
So we’d like to know what they did.
I mean, the FBI isn't famous for its culture
of transparency.
But in this specific case, uh...
we're talking about a request for judicial cooperation,
as part of a judicial investigation benefitting from confidentiality.
I find it pretty scandalous that in a case such as this one,
we witness this much bad faith and such a silence. Really.
I believe Malaysia was
what we call in French, "The Stooge" in the story.
They were updated, kept quiet somehow.
So it's the Americans leading the investigation from the outset.
It's the British who are locating the plane, with Inmarsat.
Okay.
And it's the Australians leading the search.
Everybody’s locked out.
"Move on, nothing to see here."
Nothing.
Zero.
So here’s what they told us after a week,
"Our military radar saw the plane that night, fly back over Malaysia."
But... we've been given no proof that the Malaysians really saw the plane
on the radar that night.
- Utter confusion. - I don't think so.
the key elements don’t come with proof attached.
So why believe the official story
when they're withholding essential pieces of evidence?
Excuse me? Why won't you speak to the relatives?
Malaysia 370, maintaining level 350.
Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9.
Good night.
Uh, good night, Malaysian 370.
Jeff Wise joins me now. Thanks so much for being with us.
First of all, do you really think it went to Kazakhstan?
The search is over for the missing Malaysian airliner
that vanished nearly three years ago.
Investigators overnight officially suspended the effort
to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard.
We need to suspend the search until further credible evidence.
Voice 370, a support group for next of kin, said in a statement,
"Commercial planes cannot be allowed to disappear without a trace."
Investigators released their final report overnight
on the disappearance
of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
The investigative team says the Boeing 777 was airworthy.
The pilot was very competent
and showed no signs of stress or behavioral changes.
And they cannot rule out unlawful interference by a third party.
Good evening...
We are unable to determine with any certainty
the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its far flight plan route.
It is so frustrating that every time we come for a meeting like this,
nobody, nobody is able to answer any of our questions.
Eventually,
even the official investigation stopped short of accusing the pilot.
They're not saying it anymore.
The only conclusion is that it wasn't the pilot.
It obviously wasn't the pilot.
So, the Malaysian official investigation is over.
They don’t have an answer but they're done anyway.
That's what's good about the French justice system.
They can't stop, they're not allowed to stop
until they find the truth. So that’s good, and it works for us.
I don’t want to stop either until we have an answer.
If it takes ten years, then it takes ten years.
For all of these families who've lived in this state of limbo
ever since that day,
it seems, sadly, that that state of not knowing
is going to continue, uh, for the foreseeable future.
I believe there are people out there
who know something, who know the true story.
We're still here and waiting for answers.
We want answers.