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We have people, as we have been hearing about, major assets deployed. we have fisherman and merchantmen going through the ocean and people on the beaches you expect to find these things turning up in ordinary people's hands. there was a firefighting bottle that turned up in the maldives and it went viral. >> there are a lot of things, like the carts that go up and down the row, those float and will stay floating. they are made out of a honeycomb structure that is sealed. which is a perfect flotation device. is it a sealed cell flotation device that could float for years. >> this is a question ...

Device. is it a sealed cell flotation device that could float for years. >> this is a question from philip. can a plane enter the water in such a manner that it leaves no debris. a lot of people have been asking that. do we know that now? >> i used to be an aviation history professor and we would find in researching planes from world war ii and older planes, occasionally they would remain on the ocean floor and lakes and bodies of water completely intact. but in modern times, not really. there are not many accidents where that happen. there are a few private smaller planes that land on the wat...

Currents. >> uh-huh. >> is this something possible that we may be able to find some floating debris, maybe a flotation device? >> sean, this is a very difficult task. and i know you know this, but let's not forget that the last known location of the airplane was way up here. the last point where we knew for certain the airplane actually was. this is all based on theory, based on some data from the satellite's so-called hand shake that they have come up with, and malaysia has come out with that they say determined on the satellite data that the plane crashed and everybody died. the chinese are ...

When to break the news that the wait is over. because you certainly don't do it until you know. i remember having this problem on a much smaller scale on september 11th because even though we were pretty certain within a day or two we weren't going to find anyone, there were a lot of families still hoping, and we kept the search up for three or four more days just to be certainly. >> wasn't there one survivor who was found, a pocket? >> first day, though. >> that was the first day. >> no survivors after the first day. it wasn't apparent that would be the case. to me, until maybe the second day...

When to break the news that the wait is over. because you certainly don't do it until you know. i remember having this problem on a much smaller scale on september 11th because even though we were pretty certain within a day or two we weren't going to find anyone, there were a lot of families still hoping, and we kept the search up for three or four more days just to be certainly. >> wasn't there one survivor who was found, a pocket? >> first day, though. >> that was the first day. >> no survivors after the first day. it wasn't apparent that would be the case. to me, until maybe the second day...