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On the area including the u.s. navy sampson and ft. worth. both ships have helicopters that can aid in recovering wreckage. >> the crumpling of the metal versus shearing or tearing of the metal will tell you whether it broke up in flight or was in one piece as it hit the water. >> the water is 80 to 100 feet deep making recovery more manageable. but it could still take weeks, even months before debris and bodies are recovered. this is what divers dealt with after twa 800 went down. a tangled debris field. now one of the key pieces of wreckage they're looking for, the flight recorders. >> it wi...

Distraught. julian we are looking at the pictures of the indonesian coast guard member descending from the coast guard helicopter to retrieve the bodies. tell me what we need to know to figure out what went wrong. what lost the vacuum around the wing? what will the pieces of this aircraft tell investigators? >> right. they have to do now is recover the flight recorders. there are two of them. one at the front. one at the back. that will give them a clear indication of what actually happened on that aircraft in the run-up to the terrible tragedy. so once they get that they take it back to a pla...

Some of the remains stripped of clothing. >> it suggests that the airplane hit the water in tact and the force of the impact tore the clothing off the bodies. >> reporter: aircraft and ships converging on the area including the u.s. navy sampson and ft. worth, both ships have helicopters that can aid in recovering wreckage. >> the crumpling of the metal will tell you whether the plane broke up in one piece. >> reporter: the water is 80 to 100-feet deep making recovery more manageable but it still could take weeks, even months before debris and bodies are recovered. this is what divers dealt wi...

Does raise the question if the water is so shallow, you would think those elts, the emergency locator transmitters would be very easy to hear. >> the elts don't work underwater. it's the underwater locators on the flight recorders, those are the ones that work by definition under water. the elts don't work underwater. they're created for crashes on land. what i find very interesting, listening to andrew stevens and what's happening there the families and what's happening happening at surabaya you're watching the incident in realtime. and this is what's different. they're looking for informatio...

Stage and there will be other stages unfortunately, and that's when you know depending on what information we learn, you can deal with the families in a different way. >> thank you, good to have you on the program. appreciate the expertise this evening. quick break. we're going to be back and talk about the crews and looking for those flight recorders. those critical data recorders. what information could be revealed about this flight. cnn's special live coverage of missing asia airlines flight 8501 continues.