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150 feet or so below the surface of the water, that could take some time. they want to milk sure they pick up all the debris on the surface they can. and then look for the fuselage which probably still contains many, if not most of the victims. and looking for the tail section of the plane, which will hold those all-important black boxes, cockpit voice and flight data recorder, in particular will have about 1,000 points of telemetry data recorded. it will tell investigators what condition the pl...

Bringing pieces of debris onshore along with six passengers and the flight attendant. authorities faced with a gruesome task. recovering more passengers from the wreckage and identifying the bodies. some still hold on to hope one woman with six family members on board telling cnn theres nothing confirmed as far as what happened to the passengers and were still hoping there is a miracle and they survive. at the crisis center here in surabaya relatives gather for a prayer service inside the airpor...

Boxes, the voice recorder and the flight data recorder located in the tail section of the plane. when they find that, they will retrieve it and bring it to the surface and hand it over. it will be french investigators who take the lead and not the ntsb. not an american plane or carrier. there american-built engines on the plane, but this is a french-built plane being an airbus 8320. the french have authorities on the scene and chances are they will take the black boxes back to france for analysi...

Us from singapore. search crews have been combing the java sea had the advantage of working in shallow water that has been different than the malaysian airliner that went missing. they face a lot of tough challenges. we turn to tom costello to find out the latest. whats the latest on this investigation? and they have this shadow on the water. once daybreak come they will be working through challenging weather, but they need to try to recover whats left of the debris and the victim it is on board...

Debris here, how far might it have traveled? they think they see a shadow in the water, suggesting they may have a good chunk of the fuselage identified. we will have to go down to probably remotely operate a vehicle and divers depending on the depth to determine what they have there. its possible it broke apart into several pieces and what will be critical is to identify the tail section of the fuselage. that is where you will find the voice and flight data recorder. that will be the tale of th...

Plane what does that tell you about the particular incident? >> well, the good news is they found the wreckage. theyre beginning the process of recovering bodies of the passengers and the crew. i know, thats a priority for the president of the company. it also means that were closer to finding the tail section of the plane which is where the black boxes are stored and where they operate. and those black boxes will be the keys to the puzzle to help us understand exactly what happened before the a...

Health notes the patient did not have any symptoms upon arrival in the u.s. and had no known exposure to ebola in liberia. there may be a new clue in the search for answers after that virgin galactic air ship crashed. this morning, investigators say the feathering system deployed before the craft reached the appropriate speed. that system is part of the unique tail section and is supposed to slow the descent. the fuel take and motor survived intact which will greatly help the investigation. he...

>> from the cockpit voice recorder, that is a good possibility. however, because of the way it was hit, because the tail section was on its way off during the collision or with the debris, im not sure that it had power to continue to record the sounds from that point forward. however, the flight data recorder would have a lot of really critical information. if you align -- if someone questions whether its a missile or where it might have come from, you could look at the perforation marks of the ...

>> i wouldnt think so the only thing left of this site that would give this evidence is in the tail section and some of the debris field areas there. the main part of the aircraft has been completely destroyed and temperature far beyond what the shrapnel would have been able to withstand. >> how concerned are you about the physical evidence? >> i think the physical evidence is significant. when i worked with investigators, they want to know everything about everything. not only the physical evid...

If the missile hit there why does the missile section appear intact? >> the missile throws debris at the aircraft. it explodes before it hits and impacts, so with that a case to me, those pieces of debris separated the tail from the aircraft. so the aircraft was -- the tail was gone before the aircraft went down or caught on fire. so this piece of the tail is where you would find the black boxes. if the black boxes were in that tail, though, theres a possibility they broke loose from the aircraf...