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Implications if there are inspections that need to take place or any additional information operators need to have. >> david, when you look at the debris field, the lack of fire, the lack of smoke, i dont know if thats the pictures are old, but does it tell you anything? >> well, it does tell me that it was a singular point of primary impact. it appears to be two scattered points. meaning the aircraft did kind of skim or break apart just before it hit its main scatter point. but at this point, t...

Impact. it appears to be two scattered points. meaning the aircraft did kind of skim or break apart just before it hit its main scatter point. but at this point, this type of accident whats happening in this realm is that the aircraft not only explodes as it hits the ground but it kicks back. theres a kickback effect. and those debris pieces that are coming back are intersecting and colliding with the aircraft thats going forward. this all happens within less than a second but all happens togeth...

The biggest pieces are most likely the center parts of the wings. most of the debris thats in colorful pieces the pieces that have red are from the tail of the aircraft. they are painted in manner that has color on the tail. those are the ones that survived which is typical of an aircraft this type. >> david, you hear about the size of the debris itself and what happened. is it your belief this plane crashed in air or broke up upon impact with that mountain and if so did everyone in your view di...

Overlooking an important area. tell b tell us about that. >> well, theres a part between the seafloor and the top but we think about collecting debris only on the surface and whats down below. the problem with that is the fact that theres a lot of buoyant material, especially on an airbus. so if its attached to metal, this debris could be floating anywhere in between there as it reached its buoyancy surface so it may not surface or go all the way to the bottom but the good thing about that is th...

With the bluefin. that makes sense. does it make sense to you that they are now really putting a sea state on searching for debris in this surrounding area? >> you know, i think so. you mean -- >> not giving up hope, its not quitting. >> no, i dont think that it is. i think theyve got to focus everything they have on that local area. but as far as why theyre continuing or why theyre not on the debris its probably so spread out, remember, the reason we started that, the primary reason of doing th...

Way across. remember she said earlier we have to get it down by 100, 100 miles finding debris and might have had the impact of a scatter point. were talking about a technical operation. ten miles of cables and has to go ten miles past to make the turn to come back to do another swath on it. very technical operation and very time consuming. >> its not as if they have narrowed this search area down any more than they had five days ago, ten days ago. theyre guessing now it would have been a guess a...

In that rough of the sea you wouldnt be landing on the potomac where its nice and calm for example. youre landing in surf, in waves. >> the reason i ask that is because i can see it being double-edge sword here. a scatter point with a million pieces at least gives you the opportunity to have something floating and a lot more opportunities to spot something. one particular piece, a large piece, say almost the entire fuselage, thats one spot you got to find in that entire ocean. >> theres pluses a...

Second. so thats the worst case scenario that if this what we think could be debris gets into that current, thats going to be your worst case scenario because its going to be very, very hard to find. where it is right now though the currents are very weak. so if conditions stay like they are now, and they can get to it quickly, ashleigh, looks like thats going to be our best case scenari scenario. >> thats a lot faster than i thought, jennifer. david, weigh-in, please, i think it was you i heard...

David, we do know, whats new this hour is a norwegian merchant ship reached the area but australian navy, theyre going to take a while to get there. to give us an idea, lay out what the next few hours, few days, what happens and what theyre going to do. >> the fact that merchant ship is there is incredibly fortunate. the first thing had as to to be done is identify that its part of the aircraft. so having that platform there to work with rather than just being able to fly over it and try to veri...

Distance it could glide, yes. >> 20 miles, 50 miles? >> it could be past 100 miles if you had enough altitude, yeah. >> so obviously that is -- you know, its critical -- i mean, if that were the scenario would certainly answer the mystery of why the plane would be so far off course into such a remote area. but the landing of that plane whether it ended up in a scatter point or whether it ended up ditched whole, there are pluses and minuses to both of that in terms of the finding. martin savidge,...