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Equipment needs to be on land. >> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 3350. to answer them, investigators will need to low kat the main fuselage. these brightly colored orange devices are commonly known as black boxes. >> those boxes were put out a ...

Missing? >> i think the general public doesnt realize it. but there are large stretches of the ocean where its uncovered by radar because the radar equipment needs to be on land. >> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 3350. to answer them, investiga...

Investigation, what does that mean? we knew where this went down. we have no idea where this went down. we dont even have an investigation. >> thats the problem here. we dont know everything the satellites picked up. a lot of information hasnt been given out. but in order to find the debris field on top of the water, theyre going to have to have eyes on something, like the palette maybe. in order for that to be anything, they have to prove it came from this plane, which is a long step still. >> ...

Looking for with satellite imagery, you dont have a sharp right angle and that looked like a sharp right ang until the debris. but you really need to look at all the swing surfaces on the 777. you have the two wings each side, the vertical stabilizer and the horizontal stabilizer. ive been hearing the plane is 60 feet tall but the vertical stab is not 60 feet tall. its 60 feet off the ground, but where it meets the fuselage on the back of the plane its 45 feet tall, and so just by -- if its 24 m...

Shows you all of the debris that were talking about here. now, in the same vicinity, a couple of wheels from the plane and then the tip of the plane. now, shift your eyes to the right. thats where the vertical stabilizer, thats the up-and-down part of the tail, that fell off. and to the right of that is the horizontal stabilizers. that is the left-to-right part of the tail. next, were going to move on over to the right again. one of the landing gear sections. and then, finally, move your eyes al...

Released. according to the report, the cause of the crash is the separation of the tail or vertical stabilizer, due to the first officers excessive use of the rudder pedal. >> the entire fin which is the vertical stabilizer as well as the rudder separated from the fuselage and the airplane at that time became no longer controllable. >> these are panels located on the wing. the co-pilot does this but he also uses the rudder. this is the panel attached to the vertical stabilizer, or the tail. the ...

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