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Nearby. seeing another airplane as we fly across the indian ocean was not a common occurrence. >> to you. lets focus on the two pieces of what could be possibly debro. could be pieces of a ship although this is not an often traveled route for a ship. the largest piece is 79 feet long and could be part of the plane. what could one learn from these pieces of debris as far as how the plane could have gone down. >> 125rz the pieces themselves, its most likely they are pieces of the tail section or o...

On the water, even if it broke apart, what would that -- a, is that possible and what would that mean for the size of debris? could that explain the size of debris were seeing? >> right. and again, the intriguing thing to me is if thats the tail section, that it would contain -- could contain the black boxes, and that would solve a whole lot of the mystery of whats happened here. >> jeff beatty is also joining us, formerly with the fbi, also the cia, also with delta force. jeff, the idea of -- i...

Slide raft combinations, when you open the door, we would have known about it immediately and it would have been 12 days ago. if this is debris, its unlikely that we would have survivors. i hate to say that. >> i know the black box is orange, but everyone knows it is the black box and its kept in the tail. thats what was found two years after air france and that held the secret as far as what happened to take the plane down. how difficult is it to find the tail? is it likely to float? >> no, the...

Get pieces of this jet, theyll be able to know relatively quickly whether there had been a fire inside that cabin that would have facilitated this series of thoughts about how this may have gone down. youre going to know very quickly once you retrieve parts of this if there was a fire. >> it depends on the pieces they find. if you recall in the air france crash in 2009, one of the first big pieces they found was the tail section. and of course the triple 7 is a hugely composite structure airplan...

What i hope they have, like a wing, descriptive of a tail section or something that shows malaysian airlines markings. otherwise im nervous that its premature. one of the good things you mentioned, its about 78 feet, the largest piece, which is a third the length or width of a triple seven, give or take a couple feet. so that would be encouraging. that that could be related to a debris field for this airplane. >> for viewers who havent been following, this jet is, give or take, a couple hundred ...

So to have that -- those pieces there where they thought they would be is great. now swlau what you have to do i backwards. it makes a triangle. you have this point and then as time goes on, it widens. and then the other way around, when you look the other way, it also widens. its not going to be easy. >> this is definitely not going to be easy. onest thi of the things you men is the need for this flight data recorder that would be in the tail section of the plane. the clock is ticking on this. ...

Fox since the flight disappeared, especially with that false alarm with the chinese satellite images, that the type of debris that would survive an impact into the ocean, would be the large sections of the aircraft. so the wing span, which is about 210 feet, and then that tail section which would be the horizontal stabilizer, as well as the vertical fin. and finally, i would just say that as you rightly point out, the weather may be one of the biggest unknowables in this situation. it seems to h...

If the intent was to actually hit a target along the coastline of india, for example, then the presumption that the radar is there is actually irrelevant as being a cause for this not being a likely route. >> so weve got about 90 seconds. i want to ask each of you if you could have one piece of information now that could tell you something important, what is it that you would first want to know that would lead you down the right path? >> i would want the flight data voice reporters. >> what we u...

An investigative stake in what happened to the flight, are really aware of the images and drilling down to try to get independent verification. one of the points made to me is that if this information made available on the chinese website accurate at least one piece of debris is about 70 feet in length. which would be consistent with one of the wings on the boeing 777. the other thing to look for is the tail section as well and the other piece of debris also seem to be consistent with that, as w...

Of this is a fox news alert. there is new information in the search for the mixing malaysia airlines jumbo jet. a chinese satellite showing a suspected crash site in the south china sea. chinas government say the satellite images may show pieces of. matt, nice to see you. looking at these images, what do you see? >> greta, this is significant. this is -- this needs to be looked at very closely here. the dimensions are commensurate with the dimensions of the aircraft components. the tail section,...