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Trans-sonic range, it creates a lot of flutter, its almost at mach 1, and the wind has exceeded that, creating huge shockwaves, and then they start fluttering and fall off as the airplane starts to disintegrate. if thats what happened, i would expect to see this kind of debris. >> what does that tell us, if this is something that could be ripped off, peter, does that tell us -- it seems like perhaps other parts of the plane could be very far away from this, right? >> it gives us a hint about wha...

Vibrations around that edge enough that it could be damage and enough that it could be torn off. in any event, there could be signature signs of what happened to it. heres another scenario. what if the plane is coming in under control and they are trying toly land in the water? the flaperon would be more like this. it will be down where it will increase drag and widen out the wing space here to give it more lift as it am cans in at about 150 miles an hour. thats still really fast when you hit wa...

In any event there could be signature signs of what happened to it. heres another scenario. what if the plane is coming in under some kind of control and they are trying to safely land it in the water? in that case the flaperon will be like, this winding out wing space as it comes in at 150 miles an hour. fast enough the water would rip in to this thing and again cause signature damage as it tore it off the plane and there was this compression damage to it. in any event, all of these are small c...

Wreckage when it is confirmed that it comes from flight 370, is going to give just two basic facts. one, the plane is in the water. two, we are looking in probably the right space. >> does this tell us down -- >> its down off of perth. >> does this tell ug the plane crashed in the water while intact or there is a possibility this particular part dropped off ahead of the crash? >> well we dont know that yet. theyre going to look at the fracture surfaces. and see under an electron microscope theyl...

Very hard to you know determine from just a single piece. but theres no compression damage in this. which means that it was torn from the body perhaps on impact but we really need to wait another few hours to see what the underwater vehicles are going to tell us. its just -- its just too soon to be speculating. >> and it looks just from the break, it looks like this is the same item its just flipped. yes, it is. >> youre seeing the interior and the exterior. so mary what do you look at? are you ...

What can you tell us about this? >> we cant tell where its from. that will be critical. but what we can see is along the top here and along the bottom theres no real compression damage meaning it didnt -- it was torn rather than crushed. and you see that there was some sort of tremendous force that tore it loose but it wasnt a compression. thats about -- you can see theres no sooting on it anywhere. so you dont see any evidence of fire. on the interior the change in color, thats adhesive from an...

That was found, a compressed air cylinder. what does this tell us? and if i can draw attention to this thats a crack right there that were seeing in this metal. so what does this tell us? >> this is the cylinder most likely attached to the escape raft and escape slide that was torn loose. and this just shows the tremendous impact force, again, of the plane. but it does not show compression damage. its relatively intact. this might have been thrown loose early in the process. >> and you think -- ...