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Necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a mid-air explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. weiss says the same thing could be true if malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft and things would have come out, so you would have had more debris along a longer flight path. >> a hard land...

Debris field. >> remember, that water was very, very choppy. it would take some of the pieces and wash it away and some of it would absolutely -- it would have broken it up in lots of different areas and it would have just thrown it really all around. >> reporter: still, that does not necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a midair explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa flight 800, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all of the parts. weiss says the same thing could happen with malaysia flight if it c...

The pulse as well as a chinese airplane saying they spotted debris? >> yeah, we haven't gotten any comment about these latest sightings of objects, fred. although i do need to point out we have had so many sightings of objects over the past few weeks. we need to have a healthy dose of skepticism here. we were reporting satellite images of what we thought were debris fields but turned out in an area completely unrelated now, not even being searched anymore. as far as the objects go, it's something that obviously is going to be looked at. but we don't have any official word on that. we do though...

But we were able to identify the debris fields fairly quickly. using remote-operated vehicles, side scan sonar. if they find where it went down they could use to identify the debris fields. we had three distinct debris fields. that was a start. >> how quickly? >> within a couple weeks. and then weather came in, and we had to bring all the ships back in and go back out and basically find the debris fields and redraw the debris fields of where they were. and -- but you're talking also it was between 175-200 feet maximum of depth. i was out on the uss oak hill for about a month. i was at the hang...

Aspect or the sonar, i'm optimistic about that because these are large debris fields. we're working 24/7, these machines that underwater, the submarines and the pinger locators, although it is rough. but we saw the seas weren't too bad tonight. hopefully they'll get real good progress tonight. it's not fantastic, but what would you have them do? sit and wait until something else happens? no. i'm encouraged with the fact that the wheels are on the ground and they're moving forward, for the first time, i felt that they're moving forward, they're working together. this converging track is importa...