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WITH CNN.
HE'S IN NEW YORK.
THIS IMAGE TAKEN ON SUNDAY
SHOWING THREE FLOATING OBJECTS.
YOUR THOUGHTS.
>> IT'S THE ONLY LEAD AND NOT
ONLY THAT IT IS THE MOST
PROBABLE LEAD.
IT PUTS THE PLANE WHERE IT
SHOULD BE ROUGHLY.
IT PUTS THE PLANE IN THE SOUTH
CHINA SEA, WHICH IS EXACTLY
WHERE ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED
THE PLANE TO BE IF THERE HADN'T
BEEN THIS TURN LG OFF TO THE
LEFT IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA.
SO FROM THE SIMPLE LOGISTICS OF
THE ARGUMENT THIS IS FAR MORE
RELEVANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE
WE'VE SEEN.
ALSO IT COINCIDES ROUGHLY WITH
THIS LETTER, THIS REPORT, THIS
RUMOR FROM AN OIL RIG WORKER WHO
SAID THEY SAW SOME BURNING
DEBRIS, WHICH WAS BEING
DISCOUNTED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS
BUT NOW OBVIOUSLY IS GETTING
SOME CREDENCE.
ONE OTHER THING, JAKE.
THE CHINESE -- LOOK, I'M NOT AN
EXPERT BY ANY MEANS BUT THEY
CERTAINLY WOULDN'T BE RELEASING
THIS INFORMATION IF THEY FELT
THERE WAS SOMETHING
INAPPROPRIATE OR IMPROPER ABOUT
ITS CREDENCE AND CREDIBILITY.
>> RICHARD QUEST IN NEW YORK.
SO LET'S JUST RESET FOR A
SECOND.
WE HAVE THIS BREAKING NEWS FROM
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT
SPECIFICALLY FROM THE STATE
ADMINISTRATION OF SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY FOR
NATIONAL DEFENSE, LOOKING AT ALL
OF THE SATELLITE IMAGES, TRYING
TO TRACK DOWN MALAYSIA AIR
FLIGHT 370.
THEY FOUND THIS IMAGE THAT THEY
JUST RELEASED.
IT COMES FROM SUNDAY MORNING,
11:00 A.M.
I PRESUME LOCAL TIME.
SUNDAY MORNING.
THREE SUSPECTED FLOATING
OCTOBERS.
THEIR SIZES ARE 13 BY 18 METERS,
14 BY 19 METERS, 24 BY 22
METERS.
THESE ARE THE IMAGES JUST
RELEASED BY THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT.
MICHAEL GOLDFARB FORMERLY OF THE
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION,
THREE IMAGES OF THIS SIZE.
IS THAT CONSISTENT WITH AN
AIRPLANE OR ARE WE JUST LOOKING
FOR ANY DEBRIS AT ALL?
>> BACK TO WHAT RICHARD QUEST
SAID ABOUT THE METHODICAL NATURE
THE CHINESE WOULD DO IN TERPS OF
RELEASING THE INFORMATION.
THE FACT THEY HAVE BEEN LATE,
THEY CERTAINLY HAVE A GOOD FEEL
OF THIS.
DO WE KNOW IT'S DEBRIS FROM THE
AIRCRAFT?
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
IT'S THE FIRST SOLID LEAD
CONSISTENT WITH THE PATH OF THIS
PLANE OUT OF KUALA LUMPUR.
WE'LL FIND OUT MORE.
THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING
INFORMATION.
IT COULD WASH OUT LIKE THE OTHER
LEADS AND COULD NOT BE RELATED
BUT IT CERTAINLY LOOKS MORE
PROMISING.
>> KNOWING THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT, RICHARD QUEST, I
WOULD FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE
THAT THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY
CHECKED THIS OUT AT GREATER
LENGTH THAN JUST THE SATELLITE
IMAGE.
>> EVERY SINEW INSIDE ALL OF US
IS SAYING EXACTLY THE SAME
THING, JAKE.
WE MAY NOT -- LOOK, I'M JUST
GOING TO SIMPLY SAY IT OUTRIGHT.
IT'S PRETTY INCONCEIVABLE THAT
THE CHINESE WOULD RISK THE LEVEL
OF EMBARRASSMENT OF PUTTING OUT
THIS STATEMENT, WHICH IS
DETAILED, WHICH HAS GOT
COORDINATES WHICH MATCH THE
FLIGHT PLAN, AND THEN PUTTING
OUT PICTURES WHICH CLEARLY THEY
HAVE ANALYZED TO THE nth DEGREE.
AND IT MIGHT NOT BE, BUT THIS IS
THE CLOSEST, THIS IS THE BEST,
THIS IS THE MOST RELIABLE
INFORMATION, AND THIS IS EXACTLY
THE SORT OF INFORMATION THAT
PEOPLE LIKE MICHAEL GOLDFARB, IN