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There are 15,000 interviews. in the 9/11 cases we conducted 157 depositions. behind the scenes also theres a tremendous amount of forensic evidence that is gathered through other methods, so i certainly dont mean to suggest that the guilty cant be brought to justice. i think they can. its compromised by not having a good investigation scene. >> and david, will we be able to know exactly what happened? you know, where this missile hit, what happened onboard that plane? will we figure that out? i ...

Picture, investigators wouldnt have much to work off of. its changing so quickly because its being contaminated and uncontrolled, and i also think the media presence here is actually helping by shining a light on the situation and creating international pressure and in a situation that should not be this way. there are two points that are really important. the first one is fred, were showing you the tail section of the plane. okay? this live shot is really about what were not showing you. so muc...

Tail section off the fuselage. it was ruled pilot error. nothing wrong with the plane. in 2009, a similar story for air france 447. the airbus jumbo jet, crashing into the atlantic after the pilot misread on instrument. all 228 passengers and crew were killed. aviation consultant john nance says pilots relying too much on instruments is the biggest problem in an otherwise safe industry. >> thats why the asiana accident last year was so infuriating. two -- rather three people who were system oper...

>> how do you mean? >> not associated with the explosion. >> how do you mean? >> once the aircraft is incapacitated in flight, it begins a fall, and the stresses of gravity and air speed and the stresses being exerted on the fuselage itself will cause parts of the aircraft to depart from the main stay of the airplane. this is why you see wing sections in different locations, tail section in different locations, the engines are in different locations. and all of that will have to be gathered toge...

I did notice one thing that we chatted about on the split screen, the tail section, which wasnt on fire, in an open field which would indicate that the aircraft came apart, maybe not at altitude but before parts of it came off before it hit the ground. >> jim cavanaugh, i want to bring you in here. the idea of how its going to be investigated, who is going to have the chain of custody of the raw data, the information, the debris field, et cetera. walk us through what an investigator would want t...

When investigators were able to salvage pieces of the jets lavatory, beverage carts, even the engines. >> a tail section, a wing, a piece of the wing. one of the two engines. that would be an excellent clue because basically you could start at that point and work your way out and hope to find more wreckage. >> reporter: but first something, anything, has to be found to produce the lead thats eluded the world for more than five weeks. david mattingly, cnn, daytona beach, florida. >> fascinating, ...

In the water. >> in this industry, that is what you have if it gets to the crash site. >> but what happens if it is in water? >> water is going to act like land would, it is not compressible. so when you hit it it will pretty much have the same effect that land would. >> making it much more problematic to detect with sonar at the bottom of the ocean. bri he says it would be hopeful they could find tonight way they did with air france 447. >> a tail section, a wing, a piece of a wing, one of the ...

Atmospheres sitting on top of the airplane that can push it down. so its a very difficult condition. >> difficult to find any wreckage, and then to recover wreckage, equally difficult. >> to lift the stuff, for example to get the black box out of the tail section. if they have to dismantle it and the plane is sitting there not broken up, then thats going to be a big task. things like bluefin are not equipped to do that, so you need ships at the fas that will lower equipment to go in and do the j...

These are located well inside the electronic bays of the 777. for them to be, quote, unquote, ejected and not have anything else around them would seem very odd to me. >> because the black boxes are in the tail section of the plane. is that the heaviest part of the plane? >> theyre designed and put there because theoretically that is the part that gets the least amount of impact depending on the type of incident or accident you have. so they specifically try to locate them away from where the br...

Box send something down to try to extract and separate that tail section black box up alone. tail section after you lift the tail section off the obama. >> that is mammoth on a 7777. >> it is mammoth and 15,000 feet. it takes some very specialized equipment. but we have the equipment. we recovered entire heel lows from 19,000 feet before. we have capacity to make lifts from that depth it is a slowly and tedious process to get ready to make a lift like that. and we certainly have the people with ...