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Retrieve some of that debris from the ocean and analyze it and see if, in fact, it's aircraft structure and if it's 777 structure, we're not going to know for sure. but i think the malaysian government, given all of the pressures of having the families there and everything, i think they want to this up sooner rather than later. but the rest of us should continue to monitor this and do everything we can to really define that is the site and it's not just a convenient way out. >> no doubt. as we said earlier looking at the map, they need to have physical debris they can get serial numbers off of...

Confirmation what the objects might be if they see them again. >> it's 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. it's 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 is 200 feet from tip-to-tip. each side is 100 feet. where the wing goes to the fuselage, 40 feet. ...

Transmitting. we've seen several new leads in this story fall apart over the past week. there were satellite images yesterday that the chinese released. they now have come back and said oh, that wasn't the crash. and when planes were sent out nothing was found. this much we know for sure, that six days not one piece of debris. not one piece of debris has actually been found. fit did end up in the ocean, what would the debris field even look like? we want to look at that now with pamela brown. >> reporter: it was called a miracle because u.s. airways pilot sully sullenberger pulled off the seem...

Actually been found. fit did end up in the ocean, what would the debris field even look like? we want to look at that now with pamela brown. >> reporter: it was called a miracle because u.s. airways pilot sully sullenberger pulled off the seemingly impossible, safely landing his packed passenger jet in one piece on the hudson river. most of the time, though, the wreckage is not in one piece. debris scatters, some of it sinking, some of it floating. >> life jackets could be in there. seat cushions. anything in the bins that floated. so it's certainly possible that substantial pieces of lightwei...

Great job. >> reporter: most of the time is wreckage is not in one piece, debris scatters, some sinking, some floating. >> life jackets could be in there, seat cushions, anything in the bins that floated. so it's certainly possible that substantial pieces of lightweight debris, not aircraft structure, could be found floating six days after if the aircraft struck the water. >> reporter: air france flight 447 crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009. in this case floating debris led search crews to the wreckage five days after it went down. the debris field was relatively contained. that shows it...