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From now. his fear was that no bodies would be retrieved tonight, that hard work would have to start tomorrow. but i wanted to ask your experts, brooke david and les, one eyewitness said he saw the plane flying so low that he figured there's no way it would have time to clear the mountain range. i mean does that tell you anything about what may have happened here? because this was the one eyewitness that was quoted in many of the french media saying he saw the plane, it was so low, he knows the area. he said, no way, it's not clearing this. >> les, you take it. >> let me caution people about e...

Operation where you're looking for someone. they have a very specific protocol of how to collect the material that's there that then needs to two to the people that understand crashes and can look at it and study it. >> all the while, you then have the challenge of the snow. apparently it's unstable. the outlook for tomorrow is not great, and this area is prone to avalanches. >> yes, this is -- looking at the terrain there, it's barren of cover, trees, and things like that. if it does snow quite a bit overnight, it can cover everything up all the material that's left there will be covered with...

I'm so mindful of these 150 souls on board. you think they're 44 minutes into this flight think they're smooth sailing, then this plane goes down for eight minutes before it hits this terrain. in those eight minutes, are those people on board -- are they feeling the descent? are they aware of what's happening? >> they're aware of what's happening, certainly, as it's descending because they know it is descending. this is a very controlled descent. it wasn't like a rapid -- i mean it was fairly rapid, of course but it wasn't out of control. so it really raises a lot of questions as to why if it ...

Very evident -- it's hard to tell from the pictures you have now, but it's very evident where the initial impact was. it's much like a fireman would try to determine the start of a fire to trace things backwards. but this is very very difficult. if you look at this terrain, every one of those grooves, every one of those small valleys or gullies there that traps the debris it also redirects the debris as well. so trying to find remains and trying to find out how to bring those remains back to the families this is an incredibly difficult task. you can see the gentleman there walking down the hil...

Out, perhaps a fire on board, may have got them to the point where clearing terrain was certainly an issue. >> and to david's point about the flight data recorder that can figure out the what the how, but not the why. they have to find the voices within the cockpit. they have to find that box to figure out why this happened. thank you, all, very much. some of you i know are standing by. much more on coverage of this plane, this tragedy in france. for more information on how you can help -- i know a lot of you are reaching out to us here at cnn. you can help the families of these plane victims....