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Miles in the opposite direction. how could an aircraft be identified over myanmar and end up in the southern indian ocean? >> how frustrating that the malaysian officials led us in that wrong direction? >> where do these facts come from? there really needs to be -- if that is the aircraft in the southern indian ocean, there needs to be an investigation into this investigation. where did we come up with the fact that the aircraft was over myanmar? who was identifying that when, in fact, it could have been anywhere? even back then that didn't make sense because thailand kicked off this 777 comin...

The weather is bad. the satellite photos are four days old. so this is a sliver of hope. it's going to require for the viewing public and reading public, listening public, it's going to require patience here because to find out whether this is a real debris from the plane, it's a matter of some days yet before ships will be there and we can really tell, i think. >> bob, in all of your reporting as we are learning about the size and scope of these objects, 78 to 79 feet for one of the objects, 16, 15 to 16 feet for the other object, does that match up in your mind to any other reports of water ...

Speed that things are moving, something that is important, even if they're right about what this debris is. that doesn' mean that's where the entire plane is. >> absolutely not. i want to remind us what we're talking about here. you're talking about very, very small amounts. approximately 24 meters for that one. approximately five meters for that one. 14 miles apart and we're talking about it 1400 miles off the coast. >> so when you see that dot. that dot is so much bigger by scale. even though it looks like a small dot on your tv, it is so much bigger than what they're looking for relative to...

Get there. they are on the radio contact with a cargo ship that's in the area and they have requested the cargo ship to divert. would you go down to this location where we believe the debris is? the cargo ship has accepted that responsibility and it may actually be arriving there relatively soon. the problem is as you can imagine, you don't stand on a ship and look out and, all of a sudden, see debris in nine foot seas when the wind is blowing 25 knots. they need a really solid location to get there to look down and then say, yes, we actually see it. >> it could be sinking further and further ...

Pieces, one is 80 feet in length. what could be ruled out from what i just told you? >> i think you got to see it. a day after twa flight 800, the debris field was ten miles long. a week later we were finding debris in cape may in jersey. so this is going to be spread out a long time. if it's not a massive trailing debris field, if this is the airplane, it kind of tells me we're not talking about a catastrophic event. we're talking about just going into the ocean. the whole thing makes no sense to me. >> why? >> why is it flying down there? what is the purpose? what is the purpose and the moti...