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Plane was involved in some sort of a tail strike or the tail scraping the ground in cairo 14 years ago, and it was reportedly repaired by airbus itself. this is of course an airbus a-321 plane. so they will go back and look at who did the repairs, how thoroughly was it repaired and subsequently, have they done any thorough metallurgical examinations of the entire fuselage section that was repaired and that tail section to see whether there was any cracking because we have seen time and time again, the tiniest hairline fractures you might not even see to the eye can turn out to be catastrophic....

Confirmation what the objects might be if they see them again. >> it's an incredibly difficult task. first of all, this area, this ocean is wavy, everything is moving, you have white caps, you have potential aircraft structure, which is white. it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. i want to go back to one point, which is important. this satellite image showed something that was 74 feet long by 43 feet wide. >> right. >> i took a look this morning at the wings, the stabilizer. the wing is 200 feet from tip-to-tip. each side is 100 feet. where the wing goes to the fuselage, 40 feet. ...

Fuselage section that burst apart midflight to further examine it. greg fike is a former investigator for the ntsb. very good morning to you, greg. >> hi, alex. >> okay, first thing, as a former ntsb investigator, what are they doing right now on the ground as they look for the clues as to what happened here? >> they're doing a very careful examination of the failed part of the fuselage. they're looking for those kinds of cracks that have been talked about in the past with aging aircraft issues, but they're also going to be looking at other factors. could there have been other kinds of fatigue...

This site. you can see this wonderful mountain range behind me high at the end of the western edge of the santa monica mountains. while standing here, i envisioned a floating roof so that i would not obstruct that wonderful view. and i drew a section that tended to look upwards so to not look at the roof and imagined a -- it looked like a wing. and i said, why not use a wing? you are seeing the left and right sections of a 747. and i've used other pieces i'd p happy to show you. >> please walk us around. >> we've used other sections. this is a section that is recognizable as a fuselage section...