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Trans-sonic range, it creates a lot of flutter, it's almost at mach 1, and the wind has exceeded that, creating huge shockwaves, and then they start fluttering and fall off as the airplane starts to disintegrate. if that's what happened, i would expect to see this kind of debris. >> what does that tell us, if this is something that could be ripped off, peter, does that tell us -- it seems like perhaps other parts of the plane could be very far away from this, right? >> it gives us a hint about what happened. i think david is right. you look at this piece. there doesn't appear to be a lot of co...

Vibrations around that edge enough that it could be damage and enough that it could be torn off. in any event, there could be signature signs of what happened to it. here's another scenario. what if the plane is coming in under control and they are trying toly land in the water? the flaperon would be more like this. it will be down where it will increase drag and widen out the wing space here to give it more lift as it am cans in at about 150 miles an hour. that's still really fast when you hit water that all that water would rip into this thing and again cause signature damage as iter to off ...

In any event there could be signature signs of what happened to it. here's another scenario. what if the plane is coming in under some kind of control and they are trying to safely land it in the water? in that case the flaperon will be like, this winding out wing space as it comes in at 150 miles an hour. fast enough the water would rip in to this thing and again cause signature damage as it tore it off the plane and there was this compression damage to it. in any event, all of these are small clues to what may have happened to a plane that comes down this way. but remember, this is seven fee...

Wreckage when it is confirmed that it comes from flight 370, is going to give just two basic facts. one, the plane is in the water. two, we are looking in probably the right space. >> does this tell us down -- >> it's down off of perth. >> does this tell ug the plane crashed in the water while intact or there is a possibility this particular part dropped off ahead of the crash? >> well we don't know that yet. they're going to look at the fracture surfaces. and see under an electron microscope they'll be able to determine exactly how this plane -- this part of the plane separated from the wing....

Very hard to you know determine from just a single piece. but there's no compression damage in this. which means that it was torn from the body perhaps on impact but we really need to wait another few hours to see what the underwater vehicles are going to tell us. it's just -- it's just too soon to be speculating. >> and it looks just from the break, it looks like this is the same item it's just flipped. yes, it is. >> you're seeing the interior and the exterior. so mary what do you look at? are you in agreement it's too early to try to discern anything? >> well i think i agree with peter, i t...