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Ones. for example, the engines of the plane. this is not from a 777, but nonetheless, any big jet like this. the engines are incredibly important to an investigation to find out whether or not they were running at the time the plane went down whether or not something went wrong inside them or they burned out or exploded or something. no way. no way those are on top of the water anywhere. and beyond that probably this is true also for the voice and data recorders which really are the treasure trove of what you can find in something like this. they are likely at the bottom of the indian ocean an...

You know, i think we got to dampen expectations here. the discovery of this wing part doesn't really tell you that much about -- i mean a big question in this crash is what caused it. was it a pilot with criminal intent? suicide and murder as it were like germanwings or a mechanical problem that we don't understand? a wing part is not going to tell you that, or conjecture about whether it hit the water hard or came in for smooth landing. sheds no light on that. you have to have the recorders, the cockpit voice recorder, and the flight data recorder and they are probably 3,000 miles away back w...

The engines. these are important to investigations. they tell you if you still had fuel. if you went in under power or not under power. there's no way they are on top of the water. thousands of pounds. same can be said for the voice and data recorders. no way they can be on top of the waves. in all likelihood if investigators are accurate they are on the floor of the indian ocean. a place with hills and valleys and tremendous pressure where so far these things have not been tracked down. miguel alison. >> thanks tom. we will cover the latest for the search for malaysia airline 370 all morning....

Began to float away from the initial wreckage. would have gone right to the bottom. man, finding that is a real real task. >> so there remains a strong possibility, i guess we could call it that the -- thoess those data recorders may never be found. >> i think that's -- yes. imagine they have been searching for 17 months now. seem no closer than they seemed at the beginning when the search began. sadly that indeed could be the case. >> robert hager, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. coming up, a turn to the lighter side. a much-needed turn as another sumter ...

The passengers. >> translator: lath night, everyone consonde each other. finally everyone thought there was no need to believe it. even as we find out this piece of debring -- there is no way to prove that our people were with that plane. even if this is confirmed debris a lot of passengers say they still will not have closure until they find that plane, until they find remains and find out what happened with the data recorders. let's not forget there were 239 people aboard that plane. an hour after taking off it went in the opposite direction. stand by. i want to bring back our law enforcem...