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Exact hinge points and the structure itself to see how it may have separated. i've heard a lot of people this morning speculate whether it was a high-speed impact it would fragment and make small pieces and things like that. you can't make those statements because impacts are different. if this airplane was landing in the water, whether the flaps are up or down and it was a controlled manner you can still have separation, you can still have impact damage. it's really going to be exactly that. this is the flaperon it did separate. it indicates that of course the airplane may have touched down b...

Up. the official could not confirm the report. reported by "the wall street journal" the plane was turned upside down. mary what do you think of this new information? >> well it is very important. very useful information. and what we want to hear is also that the tail portion of the fuselage is still on. which would give them the black boxes we hope. but the fact that it is upside down. may not be able to tell anything. obviously, if the plane haddynamic stall. it can fall to the earth like a leaf kind of belly first. or it could, you know could be spenting down. that doesn't really matter. on...

Pilots, 4590, you have strong flames behind you, moments later they crash into a hotel killing all 109 on board. the plane's black boxes are recovered. >> the black boxes are in good state to be decrypted. we have to understand what the data means. >> reporter: the cockpit voice recorder unveils the last words, the co-pilot tells the captain to land at the nearest airport, his response? too late. the black boxes reveal a catastrophe problem with the engine, air france 447 caught in a powerful storm and rolling to the right. it is june 2009, 228 people on board, the flight from paris. the plane...

Hit belly smack, belly first, and the wings were pretty much compressed, everything forward in pretty good shape. it was pretty clear that the plane came down tail first. >> mary schiavo, you can look at all the facts, the airplane that they abandoned. they don't have the information, trying to do the best they can. clearly there is this group, though, the national group based in kuala lumpur, which is trying to base together -- they brought experts from all over the world to try to sort through the data that exists and that is the group that has come up with this latest information. >> right,...

This new search and rescue refined mission will give them what they want, some type of proof that what the malaysian authorities say happened to the plane actually happened. >> it is important to talk about, paula talked about the importance of the debris for the families. and certainly that is a major point. but for an investigative standpoint to learn what happened to the aircraft they have to find the debris, not just figure out where the aircraft itself is. but it will actually help them start to figure out perhaps what happened to the aircraft itself. >> and you will be surprised what you...