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Bottom and the idea that the plane may still be largely intact even if it's in several large pieces. if that is true there's only one place to find it but when they do they'll have an awful lot of evidence breanna. >> tom foreman, thank you. >> with us now in "the situation room" we have aviation writer clive irving. he's a con tritkoncontributeor to the daily beast and tom fuentes, former assistant to the fbi and david suessy he's a former investigator for the faa. david, to you first. among the bodies recovered so far was that of a flight attendant. tell us what you could learn from this wha...

Passengers would be the other come poement. but david is right, if your hands are full and you've been through a dramatic upset of some kind that's possible. what this implies, though is that the aircraft had its aerodynamic capabilities but no power. jet engines have literally been doused out by so much moisture in the air, so it's something that is to be considered but would be born out very quickly by the flight data and cockpit voice recorder. >> which we don't have but hoping searchers will recover very soon. tom, so far there is limited pieces of debris and there are at this point seven ...

Primary role is the safety of the passengers and whether they're in their seat or not that may not be a clue and they're able to identify some of the other people that they've recovered and figured out what seats they were sitting in and that will give us more clues as to what might have happened. >> and we would expect we know that they're able to identify some of those folks. perhaps, that is something they're looking at. >> tom, one of the things that is noteworthy about this flight attendant is she was wearing her uniform. some of the other bodies that were found were not clothed and they ...

Associated with the crash. >> i know there's a thought that thing also begin, debris may begin to wash ashore soon. has that happened yet, has that begun? >> that's not something i am knowledgeable about. i would direct you to the indonesian government to speak to that one. "sampson" is out on station, located in a defined search box and conducting the search areas in that box as tasked by the indonesian government. >> with that sonar and there is the side scan sonar that may be at the disposal. lieutenant lauren cole thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuente...

Of the conversation that took place. >> and this is what we're talking about. we have one here on the desk. >> that will have a running recording of everything that the pilot and co-pilot said to each other and back to the tower. any other background noises in the cockpit they can hear, if there was an explosion or other unusual noises besides they're talking to each other or a flight attendant that may have come up to ask what they're doing or what's happening. so both boxes are critical to being able to find out what happened. >> it's so key when you talk about twa 800, there was a lot of th...