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Greta. what the wreckage field feels like. size of some of the pieces that might be down there. a completely different sweep of equipment. if it one vehicle. likely with our orion which is our 20,000-foot ocean search system and confirm, again, where the targets are and what are the highest possibility targets for finding those flight recorders. >> all right. and lets say analysis and all that analyzing the area. how do you get it up to the surface? >> obviously if you get lucky you find a fligh...

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 ...

Greta. what the wreckage field feels like. size of some of the pieces that might be down there. a completely different sweep of equipment. if it one vehicle. likely with our orion which is our 20,000-foot ocean search system and confirm, again, where the targets are and what are the highest possibility targets for finding those flight recorders. >> all right. and lets say analysis and all that analyzing the area. how do you get it up to the surface? >> obviously if you get lucky you find a fligh...

All. theres some question as to whether the batteries were properly serviced. you need to be in very close proximity. so at the depth where presumably this plane might lie in the indian ocean, that wouldnt seem to be the most effective means of finding it. >> i would think not. usually the process goes first stage is use the radar and gps data off the plane if you have it. and also look for debris, which they are doing. and then you hind cast on the debris. then you go into phase two which you m...

All. theres some question as to whether the batteries were properly serviced. you need to be in very close proximity. so at the depth where presumably this plane might lie in the indian ocean, that wouldnt seem to be the most effective means of finding it. >> i would think not. usually the process goes first stage is use the radar and gps data off the plane if you have it. and also look for debris, which they are doing. and then you hind cast on the debris. then you go into phase two which you m...

Golf ball size hale pummelled part of that state. torrential downpours caused flooding along the missouri/kansas boarder. andrea peters joins me. >> we have gone to the severe weather season. what are we looking at? yesterday, eight tornadoes were out there. a lot of times you get strong, straight line wind. we saw about 133 of those. also very large hail back through texas yesterday. a lot of people think this is a yesterday incident. that is not the case. in fact, we are still looking at the s...

Plastic material that might e out there. but one of the things theyre going to be looking at and one of the things thats a significant part of this investigation that needed to be ruled out eventually is looking for fire and soot and other evidence of a preimpact fire very well still may be on the wreckage, so it doesnt rule out the ability to see those type of evidence or clue. >> we know theyre looking ultimately, talking about the debris field, they want to trace it back to the black box to f...

>> translator: she only had a scar here on the chin. there was no damage to the rest of the body. i recognize her right away. >> testimony from those who did survive will later prove valuable. but in the meantime there are countless other clues to pursue. >> we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, as well as witness statements, all of these different sources of information help investigators put the puzzle toge...

Sometime from now doesnt mean its still not valuable. right? just means it makes it difficult to find in the interim? >> well, what they would be doing is looking for the tail section of the aircraft, which is where these boxes are kept, and hope they would still be in the tail or nearby, and they could be recovered quite a while from now. a year or two from now. and provide the data. the voice recorder, however, only records the last two hours of conversation. its a tape loop that just tapes ov...

The tremendous force blows the vertical fin and other parts of the tail section right off the giant 747. critical hydraulic lines are severed in the process. >> the first officer makes several radio calls that says, were in uncontrollable flight, we do not have control of the airplane. theyre fighting literally for their lives. >> the airplane starts to go into what they call a pitch oscillation, up and down, as well as a dutch roll. the airplane starts to swing back and forth. and no matter wha...