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last little while we have heard that israel has proposed hosting the rival sudanese leaders for talks. so the israeli foreign ministry are just saying that any last little while, just that one sentence, a whole flurry of international efforts to get a truce. all of them have failed so far, but israel now proposing hosting rival sudanese leaders for talks, so we will keep an eye on that development. whilst we were hearing from andrew mitchell in the house of commons, we were also gettin...

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Be good. we capture these birds and then we foot these wing tanks to them we ring them and we also in some cases harness them to follow the movement the track where they go to where they go and find food within the range of crossover in africa and that enables us to sort of get an idea of the areas where there potentially could be exposed districts i know very borders aim is to eliminate those threats as well as he can so that there will still be a place for vultures in the skies over africa. pl...

Plastics and some composite materials. things like the overhead bins, the seat cushions, the cosmetic bulk heads, all those typically should still be floating. in a lot of cases, they are going to be intermingled with wire and other debris, so you may have a lot of smaller pieces mixed in, which might look like a larger piece from the satellite or the air. >> so the bottom line is, jim, the longer the search goes on, the more scattered the debris field is going to be and the harder it is to trac...

Water. what do you think when you see these images? >> i cant make that assessment until i have my eyes on it, but its conceivable. its very conceivable that its a wing. my assumption is with the departure that took place with this wing or with the flight that the wing tanks, the center wing tanks were empty which would provide air space. they allow them to float. who knows at this point whether they are still submerge d. >> another pilot and analyst raised the possibility that this was rather t...

The ground on the runway in kuala lumpur and take off in just a moment. fuel will be the real consideration. we believe they were loaded with seven hours of fuel. let me show you something here on the dash board. i can call up the fuel load. its listed here on this tv screen and these are the wing tanks. its got, well, nearly 20,000 kilos of fuel in each wing tank and nearly 30,000 in the center tank. our total fuel is nearly 70,000 kilos. thats not anywhere near as full of fuel as this plane co...

Absolutely -- be they werent absolutely out of yule, they would have been allow on fuel to get that far, and as you point out, the wing tanks are incredibly robust and probably would provide a lot of buoyancy the large sections of wing. >> thats right. now, we dont know what this altitude was flying at. it could have been high altitude in the 30, 40,000 area where airliners typically fly at or could have been low altitude. the flying speeds, though, once you do run out of fuel, that airplane wil...

The damage to be able to say what youre looking at, first of all, the fact that the -- the roof of the aircraft, the fuselage, has burned out, we see that quite frequently whenever there is a fire particularly if its a fuel-fed fire from one of the wing tanks. we saw that in the british airways years ago where the plane guts itself right the way along the aircraft. and whats interesting the way it is localized in the midsection, forward section and hasnt gone further back beyond the wing area. a...

>> but moments after the exit doors are opened, the plane explodes into flames. >> when this additional oxygen entered the cabin with the fire burning, it ignited that smoke. >> there were flames leaping out of the door and into the air, probably six to ten feet in the air. >> it looked like an inferno. there were flames leaping out the doors. there was smoke all around it. >> and thats when we knew that we needed to get off the wing because i knew that fuel was in those wing tanks. so, i knew t...