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Seeing right there. i could see earlier there were pictures of the tail of the aircraft. you could see the actuator for the horizontal stabilizer. these are things in determining what happened to the aircraft. why it went down in the manner that it did. that had-l help us determine how close that missile was fired. and there be tell us who may have launched the missile in the first place. so i think that's a very important part as well. >> david soucie, colonel maginnes, thank you both. meanwhile, there are families and friends watching all of this, and they just want to remember the people ...

>> i want to get back to that crash scene. can we for a moment? it's just unimaginable. and as you pointed out, alisyn, it's so eerie because it's so quiet. but then they're right there on the plane. what are we looking at? >> well, it's interesting, because we've talked about this a lot, that this 150-pound payload from the missile taking down this huge aircraft. and even missile experts are saying that's really not how that missile is designed to work. it's for smaller aircraft. it explodes, it launches shrapnel at it and it will disable the aircraft where it will have to crash land. but to ...

Process. if we had a fire situation our objective toys get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. >> john, can you show some of the other systems down there. depressurizing, some of the other things that are possible to look at? >> they're tough to see. but collins makes radio gear. you can see here, we'll give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. it's ru...

Controls on airplanes and some electronics. we sought cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. it's run by electronics. even connections from the pilot, there's only i think seven cables in the whole airplane for the flight controls. it's a fly by wire airplane with minimum backup. >> here's the traffic alert and tcas as they call it. when you get too close to another airplane. >> there's the cabin controller right here, cabin pressure controller. for the most part these boxes, locations are standardized. but ...

You can see here, we'll give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. it's run by electronics. even connections from the pilot, there's only i think seven cables in the whole airplane for the flight controls. it's a fly by wire airplane with minimum backup. >> you can see some of them labeled here. here is the traffic alert and tcas, as they call it. when you get too clo...