How did they confirm it — with locks of the hair of 239 passengers.
Surely if it was on the ground up there or anywhere there would be pictures by now — but there is nothing.
Meanwhile Boeing and Rolls Royce and the search teams of 14 nations stand by Inmarsat and their more reliable sources — Dr. Doppler and Dr Ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3138693/posts?page=99#99
Yeh, OK. Wake me up when they retrieve the plane from the Inidan Ocean or the black box. Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran. :-)