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>> and, richard, based on your coverage of similar tragedies, how long do you expect it to take investigators to find the rest of the plane? they have now found debris. is there a normal duration between finding the debris and finding the rest of the plane or can it take potentially years, even? >> oh, no, not talking years here. were talking days, maybe weeks. i would not be surprised to find that they locate the main body of the debris, the main debris field, the fuselage in the next 48 hours....

That region have offered even more extensive resources. im glad to see the u.s. offer that. i was very critical of the, our lack of effort in the laifz 370. i think we should have dispatched a fleet of maritime patrol airlines to listen for pinger signals when the batteries were operating. i think its more symbolic. the thing that convinces me that theyre going to find this debris is all the commercial traffic, the commercial vessel traffic thats out in those waters. im sure theyve sent out noti...

Down the pinger but its quite routine. >> richard, how much of the plane would you expect them to bring up? >> its a very good question. depends how much is bringing up above and any large pieces will be brought up because they will want to reconstruct the aircraft as much as possible. if you look at twa 800, they braugt up an enormous amount of the aircraft because they rebuilt it. that is in the warehouse of the ntsb and the authorities. they wont be able to get it all. it all depends also car...

And bring the rovs back. >> its amazing the technology we have. and no toad pinger locaters. we dont have to use that? why. >> you do want to use toad pinger locaters but we do not need the huge systems for flight 37. because the pinger doesnt weigh much. but when you drop it down two miles or three miles, its steel cable and electrical power and telemetry that weighs and it gets huge. so these smaller systems, we have hand-held systems and pingers on our robots. if we happen to lose a robot. we...

So you take avs or side scan sonars you can map out the whole area once they use pinger, they can map out the area and get good sound images which look like pictures of the wreckage and then they can make dive plans or rov plans, which are remote operated vehicles to manipulate with arms. >> there is such an advantage that this is less than 100 feet deep in some areas because, as you said enough marriage of technology and then the human factor because those human eyes on some of this is going to...

But theyll also use pinger locaters to find out where the flight data recorders are and any sort of underwater robotics they want to look through the wreckage, to retrieve some of the wreckage. they have a lot of tools as their disposal here. they will probably deploy all f of them as they try to collect every piece of this plane that they can, along with all of the victims. >> do they use the divers and submersibles at the same time? >> not everything is created equal down here. recovery of the...

Winds pick up lightning picks up as well. and all of a sudden youre scattering that debris even more. now, eventually were going to get the pinger locater on top of the pinger itself and well find it. but im on board with david here with this larger debris field because for so many days weve had wibdnd. and any little piece of debris thats been sticking up out of the water at all will have windage, like a sailboat. and it will float down much faster than something slightly below the surface but ...

Be used to recover the wreckage of 8501? >> a lot of the similar equipment but in this particular situation, we have the added ability to put divers in the water, so youll have your sonar tools whether theyre towed sonar or awe on it news vehicles which are becoming more and more the tool for sonar, rovs, not as robust as the segment we saw because those are from deep stuff. when youre shallow you dont need as much power you have the ability to put smaller vehicles which are much more transporta...

Is already ticking on that for the battery that goes out on the pinger. tom, what kind of information, if you dont have the black box, what kind of information can the investigators as ser stain. >> first of all, from the bodies they can have cause of death and they can tell whats in the lungs, whats in the body as far as whether its explosive material smoke, if they are damaged from an explosion, shrapnel in the bodies. its gruesome but they can tell a lot from the bodies and the pieces that th...

Like this can still happen. this should be easier than the malaysia airlines mystery to solve and yet so far no sign of this plane. >> absolutely. it should be easier and theres really no excuse in this day and age why we dont have the technology thats out there and available in the works being installed on these aircraft. we should know where these aircraft are real time and not just be relying on a pinger that may be heard for two miles or dead after 30 days. >> thats the pinger that goes off ...