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Water for more than one reason. it doesn't usually provide much of a soft landing. it can help, it depends on the altitude. if you're falling from a high altitude, hitting water is like hitting cement. but here, because they maintained some level of control, yes, the water probably helped, but in so many accidents, pilots head towards the water to save the lives of people on the ground. >> we have also just learned that the faa and national transportation safety board will be investigating. walk us through what an investigation would look like in an accident like this. >> well, first and forem...

Maintain some semblance of control and get it down without an upset event. in other words, they were upright when they went to the water. >> extraordinarily thankful and lucky they avoided beach-goers. at least to this moment no deaths reported. in a case, does the water help to some degree? do you believe the pilot may have been, i think he might, have been aiming for the water here instead of the land if he was of in some semblance of control? >> yes, pilots often aim for the water for, you know, more than one reason. it doesn't usually provide much of a soft landing. it can help. it depends...

Controversy whether or not it would send a signal. but hitting the water, that instant you hit the water that's like hitting cement. at least once it would send one ping to a satellite. am i right? do you agree with me jesse or not? >> i would think so. for sure if it was submerged in salt water it could go off. >> so that's different than the black box ping. this is is the elt. that's something separate, right? >> that's correct. >> all right. >> this el. >> it is transmit allege signal to a satellite. >> all right. as far as we know, we don't have one. does that mean to you that the plane di...

Off, it's fixed in the airline tail. it's not each up front so that the pilot can do anything. it notifies the crash on land or crash on sea whether it's the salt water activates it or whether the impact of hitting the water, like hitting cement on the plane send at least one up. that means it didn't crash land which is bizarre but what do you think, matt? >> well, on land it's the most plausible is that it didn't crash on land if that elt didn't go off. on water, it just depends. unlikely, at this point. okay. as evidenced in air france flight 447. no elt signal was received there as well. it...

Controversy whether or not it would send a signal. but hitting the water, that instant you hit the water that's like hitting cement. at least once it would send to . am i right? do you agree with me jesse or not? >> i would think so. for sure if it was submerged in salt water it could go off. >> so that's different than the black box ping. this is is the elt. that's something separate, right? >> that's correct. >> all right. >> this el. >> it is transmit allege signal to a satellite. >> all right. as far as we know, we don't have one. does that mean to you that the plane didn't crash land on l...