France Won't Confirm Piece Of Plane Came From Malaysia 370; "Flaperon" Washed Ashore On Island In Indian Ocean; Grieving Parents Remember Murdered Daughter.
BANFIELD: It has been a month since what was believed to be a part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 washed to shore on an island in the Indian Ocean. But some experts are now saying they can not confirm the piece of debris was actually from the missing MH-370. The piece of the wing called the flaperon was taken to France for forensic testing and analysis. And while investigators have confirmed the piece is from a Boeing 777. They say more testing is needed to say with iron-clad confidence that this in fact, is a piece of MH-370. CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest is here with me now. It seems so strange to see this discrepancy when the officials in Malaysia were so confident just that almost upon hearing this flaperon wash to shore that they conclusively said it's a piece of evidence.</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Yes. The Malaysian prime minister said according to the international experts, we can conclusively confirm that it's MH-370. But almost within minutes the French prosecutor said -- he used the phrase "There's a strong possibility, strong likelihood." And now, for the last month everybody's been trying to find an identifying mark that the usual word gives ironclad guarantee. Now the actual serial number of the flaperon is not there, it's believed to have washed up. So what they've been looking at is other numbers, batch numbers, serial numbers within it relating to the Spanish company that manufactures it.</s>BANFIELD: Well okay, so, look, I'm a real novice when it comes to the intricacies of equipment and pieces manufactured all over the world. But wouldn't they have had plenty of time in the last month to find any of those other identifying marks and serial numbers, etc.?</s>QUEST: Well, the rumor is that this Spanish company doesn't have sufficient records. There is probably a number - there almost certainly there is a number in the flaperon. There's almost certainly a batch number in the flaperon.</s>BANFIELD: That will give us a definitive answer?</s>QUEST: And only if the Spanish company has a decent record. But the rumor is that the phrase that's around at the moment is insufficient evidence of record.</s>BANFIELD: So, you know, for everyone...</s>QUEST: This could be an embarrassing fiasco in terms of why the company who manufactured it does not have a decent paper trail that's enabling them to say, yes, that's where it came from.</s>BANFIELD: It was an embarrassing fiasco when the plane went missing with no trace. I mean it was embarrassing and was tragic and apart from the fact that the world followed the mystery, grippingly followed this mystery moment to moment. There is still the whole notion that there are families out there who have no final answer on their mother, their brother, their daughter, their sons, their cousins, their loved ones, is there something to this apart from the emotional conclusion of this? The legal ramifications of linking this with absolute concrete hard evidence?</s>QUEST: No, because the treaty, the Montreal treaty which goes into the whole aspect of damages is quite clear-cut on this. There are allegations that you can get greater damages as a result of all of these. And -- but so far, this flaperon wouldn't tell them what happened anyway. This flaperon wouldn't tell them where and it wouldn't tell them why or how.</s>BANFIELD: It would tell it's crashed.</s>QUEST: And that's the significance.</s>BANFIELD: ... anything that we can tell these poor families at this point would be I mean who knows what they're going through at. We can never imagine what it's like to be in their shoes. Richard, thank you for that keep us posted. So, their daughter murdered live on television, ambushed along with her photographer as they worked. Coming up, CNN exclusive, Alison Parker's parents on a young woman who was driven to be the best.