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I did notice one thing that we chatted about on the split screen, the tail section, which wasn't on fire, in an open field which would indicate that the aircraft came apart, maybe not at altitude but before parts of it came off before it hit the ground. >> jim cavanaugh, i want to bring you in here. the idea of how it's going to be investigated, who is going to have the chain of custody of the raw data, the information, the debris field, et cetera. walk us through what an investigator would want to have in order to get to the bottom of what happened. what would be needed by law enforcement to ...

Somewhere and they'll find it. >> when they do find the cockpit voice recorder, the so-called black boxes, how much information specifically will we be able to glean from that as far as whether it was an air-to-air missile or a surface-to-air missile, for example? >> that i'm not sure about. you may be able to interpret something from the sound of the airplane being struck. those microphones pick up sound like the microphone over which i'm talking to you. but they also pick up vibrations, sound vibrations that travel through the airframe. there may be something that the crew says. they may kno...

With carry an explosive payload, 75 kilograms of explosives, it will be apparent to investigators that a high-explosive blast would have hit the fuselage, there will be evidence of that, fragmentation of a bomb or missile. and they will be able to tell that as opposed to an internal breakup of the air frame or some other accidental cause. that will be apparent. secondly, what will be apparent is, you know, our radar and satellite images of whether a missile was fired. i think we'll be able to do that. the u.s. and other countries will. so it's going to come together quickly. this is not going ...

The aircraft, something along those lines. >> reporter: the aircraft, a boeing 777 is the same type of plane as the missing malaysia airlines flight and the same kind of plane that was involved in last summer's asiana crash in san francisco. the ntsb says that crash was caused by pilot error. aviation experts consider the 777 among the safest planes. >> nice to step on the land. >> reporter: united passengers spent seven hours inside a gymnasium on the island waiting for united to send in another plane after a harrowing ride. alexandra field, cnn, new york. and now we're closing in on the fi...

Flail around. they have a handler on each side of him so he can't jump out of the helicopter, grab anything, grab a weapon, you get the picture. they want to contain hip as much as possible. also physically assessing him, eye contact, hey, you know, stay with me, we're americans, point to a patch, american flag, we're here to get you home. you're assessing -- taking vitals, whats his heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, looking at all of these things and taking data down. not interrogating him at this point. that will take place once he gets to the base. so protecting him and the air fra...