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During flight. >> now that they have this, is there any reverse engineering that can go on? how helpful is it that its 2300 miles away from where theyre looking? >> the reverse engineering as far as the drift patterns, i dont think there could be anything conclusively derived from where its located. there were two major, major storms in this period of time that went through this area and could have disrupted even what you would think of as the currents and because its floating as well, even the ...

Generally things undulating toward though west with. there are nuances with the ocean currents here. generally we have a west ward motion here. if you talk about reverse engineering its going to be tricky. you have some eddies here as well. i think their best guess is where they have been looking over the last year and a half here. may not tell us much here but it is at least one of the pieces in the puzzle as far as the wreckage is concerned. thank you, ivan. >> so many twists and turns but as ...

Is salinity. it will be nuanced here. as richard mentioned it will be difficult, regardless of that, to trace something that washed ashore in reunion all the way back to the search area here. thats what they are going to look at here. as you can see here, this is live current feed from earth school.net. we can track the ocean currents and you can see to the south here some of the eddies that begin to form. it takes a while. theres understoodlation unless t -- undlations. it will be difficult to ...

Reverse engineering, but we just dont know how accurate it is. >> but it is also the only hard evidence available to investigators, and malaysian prime minister najib razak. >> i asked them again and again, are you sure? and their answer to me is we are as sure as we can possibly be. >> he needed to be sure because, based on those calculations, the prime minister was about to deliver some very somber news. >> flight mh-370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> the southern indian ocean. thousan...

Seemed unlikely in this case. or it was being used to spy quietly on assads strong hold. that is why the syrian military shot it down. >> such a weird way to find out what were doing, but i guess we use all the means available. craig whitlock, thanks for reverse engineering this information. appreciate you being here. >> sure thing. >> well be right back. stay with us.

Reached out. >> isnt that a problem. weve talked about this before about frustrations with turkey in all these people who are flying from turk knee syria. why did turkey not reach out to the u.s.? >> well it could be a couple of different reasons, just the bandwidth bandwidth, the capabilities of the turkish security services on the ground. perhaps connections werent made between one arm of security versus the other and the easiest thing to do was to send this guy back to egypt, but its somethin...

Its time now for "the mix." have you ever wondered, how does mcdonalds make those french fries that are so good. >> love those french fries. absolutely. >> it cant be real if it is that good. >> dont think so? >> thats the question a lot of people had. one guy looked in to it. he did what you call reverse engineering to try to figure out if mcdonalds french fries are really made from potatoes. he went through the system. the fast food giant lifted the veil for him. its a you-tube video thats bee...

Plane was going. >> this is evidence that is kind of getting close to black magic. i mean, its a feat of mathematics and ingenuity and reverse engineering, but we just dont know how accurate it is. >> but it is also the only hard evidence available to investigators, and malaysian prime minister najib razak. >> i asked them again and again, are you sure? and their answer to me is we are as sure as we can possibly be. >> he needed to be sure because, based on those calculations, the prime minister...

Evidence of the door opening and the first few bodies would be consistent with the rear rows of seats and those who would be in the flight attendant station by that door. im wondering as part of the fuselage breaking up if it began at the bottom rear that would suggest that likely merkel on the hudson landing, the first part of the fuselage to hit the water was the rear end. im trying to do reverse engineering and looking at the way the bodies have appeared. we have 30 so far, and in the case of...

>> reporter: there are really three layers to the physical search right now. the one weve been talking about the most is on the surface of the water. we know where the plane took off, where it disappeared, we know they found debris and the water here is very rough at times. the surface matters because the surface is where you get your first clues. things floating on top of the water may or may not tell you a lot about the cause of the accidents. they are indicators. when you move to the second l...