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Ocean and took a matter of years to get to the wreckage site itself. even though they found wreckage floating a few days after the event. so the black boxes, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are -- so long as they survived and they should, they are designed to do that are going to tell the story. and so i think, as clive points out, as long as it gets in the right hands at the right time we should be able to unravel this one fairly quickly. >> you put stock in that miles, ...

Evidence of the root cause of the accident that is when you stop adding layers. so in this case it was necessary to build the entire aircraft back. and peter can tell us more about that. how that happened was that there simply were not answers until they saw the entire impact. there was a lot of questions about whether there was a missile from the outside in or inside out. those were agsed but it took a lot of assembly work. >> painstakingly, you can see how much work it did take to put that tog...

Come out in the next 24 hours. what he was saying was we found this debris and then found this shadow of a plane. its perhaps unlikely that the plane is fully in tact. planes falling out of the air tend to breakup with the impact of the water. what hes talking about is a large section of fuselage. perhaps also still connected to wing -- well wait and find out. we will know that within the next 24 to 48 hours. >> what do you think about the shadow peter? >> well i think the wreckage would have dr...

If it did break up mid air, you could expect to see more along the lines, as i mentioned, of mh 17. >> weve seen so little at this point. peter, he brings up air franls 447. the black boxes were so key in that flight. and this happened so many times when these recorders are recovered. they completely change the perception of wham. they reveal the truth. so in this case as we are very hopeful that the black boxes will be recovered. where did they go? what nation will take over the analysis of the...

They tried to face whatever they were faced with, that will tell a lot about the data, the altitude direction speed, all of those kinds of things. or whether the system was coming off or coming apart. when they determine what was being said by them at the time of the crisis. that will tell a lot. >> twa flight 800, investigators pain stakenly put together they put back together the plane. collecting these pieces from the ocean floor, trying to reconstruct and see what happened. this was somewhat...

Australia, theyve done it before. it is closer. if they go to france who is an accredited representation it will take some hours to get the material to paris, to download and it to get to the interpretation done. i would guess either france or australia will take the lead. until you have the black boxes, you cannot really rule out what cause igs may be. we think weather may be a factor. in many of the crashes, human error plays a role or mechanical failure plays a role. what about foul play? can...

Introspection. they will obviously be looking at what caused the pilots to do what this did. once the final report is known, you have as an airline, any airline does you say, where did we fail if we failed at all? for an airline that has grown so fast as airasia, that will be the key moment. because the reputation will be damaged. but let me tell you, there are a lot of airlines in asia that have truly dreadful reputations. >> some have been black listed as weve seen. this route that you had, th...

Big picture as far as how the plane essentially fell out of the sky and thats going to be critical when they need to piece together this full picture of exactly what happened on sunday. >> when the black boxes are committee recovered -- and i hope its a when not an if -- i think the expectation is that the wreckage can be located at some point where do they go for analysis? which country takes the lead? >> we know that the french equivalent of the ntsb have two investigators on the ground there....

Everything on the surface to whatever is down on the sea floor? >> oh yeah. thats certainly a key situation theyre trying to figure out at this point. david, the rescuers or searchers have found some debris. can you even tell how long it will take to locate this black box? >> no. in some cases, if thats the shadow that is an airplane that was seen. it can be a day or two. if theyve got a search with the pingers and theyre searching a relatively confined area it might be a weeks time. i dont expe...