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Passengers would be the other come poement. but david is right, if your hands are full and you've been through a dramatic upset of some kind that's possible. what this implies, though is that the aircraft had its aerodynamic capabilities but no power. jet engines have literally been doused out by so much moisture in the air, so it's something that is to be considered but would be born out very quickly by the flight data and cockpit voice recorder. >> which we don't have but hoping searchers will recover very soon. tom, so far there is limited pieces of debris and there are at this point seven ...

We're hearing is even the sonar has not been able to verify whether this is basically the ground zero or not. >> andrew stevens in surabaya, indonesia, thank you so much. appreciate it. apart from recovering victims, search teams are most eager to find the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, the so-called black boxes. until we have those, experts are left to form theories, conjecture about flight 8501's demise based on each new piece of evidence. that brings me to david soucie in new york and david gallo, cnn's analyst and director of special projects at the oceanographic institut...

That is the way i would be leaning. >> aircraft hitting in tact. we are seeing bodies on the surface here which indicates that the fuselage at least did not sink in tact. >> exactly. it would have broken off by the wings. >> we know andrew stevens is reporting authorities are telling us that it is 40 meters deep the water there. that means they can look quickly for the fuselage and also for the flight data and voice orders. >> the towed ping locaters are on the way. they will expedite it. it is important to get the boxes. a lot of information in them and they will stay there for a long time. i...

To get there. murky water. talk about some of those challenges in terms of getting to the actual debris. >> well you've got to find it first of all. well they've done that you've got to find the main debris field, well, mary as elgabtegantly said you'll work backwards until you find it and then you go into the water and start searching. in 447, they found the debris field, they found where the fuselage was. but they still had several months before they could find the black boxes. because after, there was so much time had passed the there water any pings from the locators. which of course only ...

Side about five miles. it should be 4,300. >> the plane's speed drops dangerously low. it begins to dive in heavy snow. the pilot overcorrects. a fatal mistake. >> obviously the initial reaction to the warning was incorrect. >> the jet crashes into a home in buffalo new york killing all 49 people on board. >> we put our lives in the hands of people we assume that the faa and the airlines are properly training. >> both black boxes, the cockpit voice reporteder and flight data reporter divulge panic in the cockpit as the plane plunges to the ground. the pilot blurts out, we're down. first office...