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Finally now looking at if, in fact, these floating debris turn out to be wreckage from the plane. but still a very long way from finding a debris field at the bottom of the ocean. for perspective, chris, think about air france 447 which went down off brazil about a half decade ago. within a couple of days, yes, there was debris floating, and, yet, it took nearly two years to find the debris field at the bottom of the ocean and then about another year after that to know what happened. all of that in an incident that was much more clear from the beginning. we knew that plane had flown into bad w...

You can tell just from a small piece of that fuselage if it was twisted, if it was bent or fit was cracked. >> and what speed. >> all three of those are different. >> so you could read from any piece of debris or sizeable piece of debris something about how it got in the water. >> fit was in the stress affected line. there's portions of it that would go around and it might be a piece of it. likely there's pieces of metal that will give you a lot of clues as to how it hit the ground, particularly like les was saying if the wing came off you could surmise it may have gone to the right or left. t...

And that's a possibility we are finally now looking at if, in fact, these floating debris turn out to be wreckage from the plane. but still a very long way from finding a debris field at the bottom of the ocean. for perspective, chris, think about air france 447 which went down off brazil about a half decade ago. within a couple of days, yes, there was debris floating, and, yet, it took nearly two years to find the debris field at the bottom of the ocean and then about another year after that to know what happened. all of that in an incident that was much more clear from the beginning. we knew...

The plane was in over a million pieces. a million pieces. >> reporter: the fbi's jim kallstrom arrived at dawn the next day, facing the toughest case of his career. convinced the crash of twa flight 800 was an act of terrorism. >> if it was, then the crime scene really was all of long island and a good portion of the atlantic ocean. >> reporter: as the fog lifted from the sea that morning, this is what he saw. >> once you get to the site, which i did early that next morning at first light, and you see the debris floating, and you get down close and you get in the coast guard boat and you actua...

All right, seth, how do you find this thing? >> well, yeah, it would be useful to at least know in what part of the world this plane went down. and that's a possibility we are finally now looking at if, in fact, these floating debris turn out to be wreckage from the plane. but still a very long way from finding a debris field at the bottom of the ocean. for perspective, chris, think about air france 447 which went down off brazil about a half decade ago. within a couple of days, yes, there was debris floating, and, yet, it took nearly two years to find the debris field at the bottom of the oce...