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Drugs or more importantly, they are leaning towards something in those drugs was involved in the actual deaths, it could lead to charges associated with not only delivering the drugs but potentially charges related to the murders -- the deaths of these two men. we will just have to see how they play it out and what the reports say. >> thank you very much. we appreciate that. next on our special coverage we will talk about the four different ways a plane can crash and what that says about a lack ...

Can narrow it down. they really do have to narrow it down as far as possible before they put the submersible down because that thing goes at walking pace. they have tried to narrow that down further. still a long way to go. >> michael holmes, thank you. coming up, if the plane did crash into the indian ocean, what would that look like after more than a month under the sea and how would that affect what investigators are looking for and where? plus a mystery on the board of alabama. two navy seal...

But again, we dont know what happened. >> okay. jeff. jay asks would the plane have had enough fuel to make the drop, climb, and still have enough fuel to reach the pinger location? >> to go down low, this is the idea that over the peninsula it went down to 4,000 or 5,000 feet. that would be a very fuel intensive maneuver. maybe it wouldnt have had enough. >> nicholas says the 777 is designed to glide when it runs out of fuel. i dont know what that means. >> after it runs out of fuel it will try...

>> got it. >> im going to throw the first question to you from sarah. sarah says this is for you. >> it could take hours or days, but most agree that it would be difficult to land a plane like that in the ocean, in which case you are more likely to see a more catastrophic break up. its going to go down pretty fast. its going go pretty much straight down. you had a pretty tight little pattern. >> justin, this one is from

Like on the bottom of the ocean, this debris? >> well, i think im going to have to agree with you on this. >> no, let him finish but i wanted to go through the scenarios and then what youre saying. but what would the debris look like after this -- after a couple of weeks down there? >> it could be a large debris field depending on how this plane came down. either way, youre going to have -- you may have a fairly large section that fuselage that is in tact lying at 15,000 feet. you could also hav...

Heart after 2:00 in the morning when the plane went missing and what information was known at that time and who was following the plane in realtime. it wouldnt have made a difference to the results, youre with me on this? >> it certainly would have made a difference in the searching and looking. >> not necessarily. we knew about the western part of the search pretty much the next day. the question is -- the fundamental question varies. when did the malaysian military know, have reason to believe...

It too late. actually telling people about a missing plane. had they had their ducks in a row, dont you think it might have been a different investigation at this point? >> they may be a week ahead of where they are right now, which with the batteries dying on the locators would have maybe made a big difference. >> every minute makes a big difference. >> yeah. especially, don, i think youre right. to make statements that then you have to retract or walk back from, its happening far too many time...

But youre saying that we have to listen to what the investigators are saying. >> weve been doing so much analysis on this and we go back to where the transponder is and we have a look at the nature of the route but if theres going to be an explosion that would suggest a terrorist bomb or something like that, its not going to happen at the physical outer limits of the endurance of the plane. at the moment the evidence suggests that the pings and all of the other analysis, the aircraft continued t...

Are well founded? >> yes. they are not in contradiction with each other. houston was talking about events that may have happened on friday. houston was specifically recording. nothing has happened. >> there is a slight nuance. houston said all along that he thinks its consistent with an emergency locator. >> were very confident. >> were very confident this is it. >> i think we have to allow the political speak. >> thank you richard. appreciate it. more coverage of the missing plane throughout th...