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"the titanic" at 12,500 would be way down here. if you go to the air france crash over the atlantic they found wreckage on the surface there in five days but it took two years to locate the bulk of the wreckage down here. and malaysia air they are looking down here at 16,000 feet among canyons and mountains in complete darkness and very severe cold. so by comparison much easier what they're trying to do right now because of the weather and the always-present uncertainty under water. easier doesn't even easy. >> yeah. that is true. tom foreman, thank you for that. back with me to talk about s...

Wing. it looks like it struck some object but, in fact this wing hit the water. the water being a very very hard surface when you hit it fast. >> reporter: and if you're talking about a 777 hitting the water it would be immensely more noticeable. >> and that 777 would be moving at much higher speed than this aircraft here. so therefore the energy would be greater. >> reporter: even with all the pieces investigators are able to put back together if they don't recover the part of the plane that failed in flight the cause of the crash may remaybe a mystery. stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. joi...

Waves have certainly hampered search efforts but once the storm dies down fiending the jet should be easier than other disaster searches largely because of the depth of the water there. cnn's tom foreman explains. >> the search area has been narrowed down considerably to a box here about 45 miles by 45 miles, and the water here is considerably more shallow than some other searches in the past. that should make things easier. let's look at a comparison here. this is where they are searching right now. just 80 to 100 feet under the water. compare this to the world's tallest building here. we put...