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Virtually nothing is left of it, say investigators, other than one small wing section. the investigation shifting to 29-year-old richard russell. what was happening with the three and a half year horizon air employee. he had security clearance to be there as a grounds worker. he appeared happy at work. he posted video blogs of how much he enjoyed his job. he was happily married according to his family. for them and the friends he had to hear the conversations he had with air traffic control. it ...

Data recorder. it will be analyzed approximately mid week. investigators hoping to learn a little bit more about what was going on with the plane. this plane in the crash went through several hundred feet of trees. nothing is left of it, say investigators, other than one small wing section. the investigation shifting to 29-year-old richard russell. what was happening with the three and a half year horizon air employee. he had security clearance to be there as a grounds worker. he appeared happy ...

Care about me and it will disappoint them to hear i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them. just a broken guy. got a few screws loose, i guess. i never really knew it until now. >> cnns kyung lah is in seattle with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. ntsb has recovered the flight data recorder. it is on its way to washington, d.c. it will be analyzed approximately mid week. investigators hoping to learn a little bit more abou...

With the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. ntsb has recovered the flight data recorder from the crash. it is on its way to washington, d.c. it will be analyzed approximately mid week. investigators hoping to learn a little bit more about what was going on with the plane. this plane in the crash went through several hundred feet of trees. virtually nothing is left of it, say investigators, other than one small wing section. the investigation shifting to 2...

>> yeah. we learned a lot from the debris in air france 447. we could tell off the pieces aft of the wing section were compressed and everything forward was relatively great shape, so it gave us the idea that the plane belly smacked tail first. everything is a piece of evidence, so youve got to get wherever you can out of every piece collected. >> for more on the story, go to cnn.com. up next, one womans story of survival in washington state in the midst of that deadly landslide. she was in her ...

Families. >> its one thing for people in the media to be going over theories. this is what investigators are doing. theyre running through every scenario. >> its a crude terminology, but david will agree with me, its called tombstone technology. we learn this from these tragedies, but we do learn something so these people have not gone on or died in vain. >> david gallo, again, from that debris, i know you were working under the water on 447, but it is fascinating even with some pieces of debris...

Confirmation what the objects might be if they see them again. >> its an incredibly difficult task. first of all, this area, this ocean is wavy, everything is moving, you have white caps, you have potential aircraft structure, which is white. its like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. i want to go back to one point, which is important. this satellite image showed something that was 74 feet long by 43 feet wide. >> right. >> i took a look this morning at the wings, the stabilizer. the wing ...

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...

Investigators have said its going to take a few days at least before they can really confirm what those satellite images show. but what do you see in the satellite images? what can we glean about the size? the largest is about 79 feet. what do you see in the images? >> as tom said earlier in his piece, you know, anything thats 78 or 79, 80 feet, theres only two possibilities really, one is part of the wing section, you have a wing span of over 200 feet. that means each wing is better than 100 fe...

Realry knreal y know what it was. >> william bell is on the phone right now and hes at the airport. he joins us live. good morning, mr. play mayor. >> good morning, carol. >> it appears from the pictures that this plane literally slammed to the ground. >> yes, it did. we dont know why it did. but it left a pretty long debris field and broke up into several parts with the fuselage and the wing section separated. >> was weather a factor, do you think? >> we cant rule it out 100%, but during that p...