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Back, again, if that is the drifted debris? >> this case is geometriccally more difficult. we knew where the debris field was after four days of sonar. we had the resource of the u.s. navy, all of the resource, diving resources here on station and we were in 130 feet of water. so it's going to be totally different and much, much harder. in that case the black box told us nothing. it just stopped. it was a catastrophic explosion. so we had to -- not necessarily ntsb, but the f.b.i. had to recover almost all the airplane so we could say that this wasn't terrorism. if we only had 80% of it, we co...

I know we are all surprised about the lack of findings so far on a 13th day. what does it say to you about what investigators should be looking for at this point in an investigation? >> i think most importantly as we found with the air france 447 accident, first, we have to look for debris. from the beginning i had very serious doubts that the airplane was on land. a lot of speculation about it but for the reasons just cited the airplane is so large and trying to hide something of that size is very, very unlikely. so i have felt from the beginning that we were looking at a water event and it w...

And the wind. it will track like a line. so this could be part of the line. depending on the way the seas are running and what not. it could be part of the same debris field. a large section accumulates more debris in areas. so there are thin little weeds and trash and then just bigger lumps of it which tends to pull itself together. >> these images are three days old. australians have been analyzing them for this amount of time. we're two weeks into the search. does that time line in terms of currents and how fast they move, does that line up to you? >> they have more data on what is happenin...

Area. initially the ntsb established an area down here that was 300,000 square miles and said take six weeks to look at it. it then realized 12, 14 hours later they thought they could make it smaller down to 120,000 square miles which is what they did. they came up with 120,000 square-mile area which is in that area there where they are looking. the actual debris that the satellite picture has shown is actually to the south of that area. it's down here. so that's likely a result of the drift that you were talking about and they have been looking at it. they have their teams together to sort of...

About 1500 miles, if that is part of the debris of the flight, it still doesn't explain why the plane is exactly 180 degrees from the direction it took off from. >> yes. that is the biggest mystery out there. finding the debris gives us hope that investigators will be able to piece together what happened. it will take us a long time to have answers here. but having debris field gives us that hope of finding those black boxes. it took air france nearly two years to recover them. but hopefully we will. >> one of the reasons, a couple reasons why we need to recover them, for the families, number ...