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The difficult thing is once it impacts, when they use the word obliterated, that's probably the best description you could come up with. but it also goes backwards away from the impact point. so you're having to figure out what went forward and what went backward from that accident point to gather information. the fact they have the flight data recorder is extremely useful, but the limits of the flight data recorder is it will tell you what happened. it won't tell you why necessarily. that's why we have to find that cockpit voice recorder to get the answers to do why it happened what was going...

Let me get to the next slide -- okay now, the navigate aspect of this doesn't seem to have changed. the flight path was going from from -- let's come back off here. >> i think it's being a little temperamental. >> the interesting bit about this thomas at 48 miles before the impact point, the aircraft doesn't seem to have changed direction. we go to the mantra aviate navigate, communicate. the navigate bit, this point here the aircraft should have been looking forge a suitable diversion to land at and it doesn't appear to have done that. it appears to have projected along the original flight pa...

That could limit the amount of assets used for wreckage. that will be key getting as many aircraft in the air because they can cover a larger area, see the floating debris from up above over a larger area than the surface ships. they may find one piece of it. the weather will dictate how successful we are using aerial assets. once with they find it we have to concern ourselves with what direction did it come from, trying to backtrack where it originated. that should be the largest impact point. we have to assume it was in the water. just floating out there. they will be looking for a debris fi...

Where it breaks apart, those pieces are far from the impact zone. so what my concern was at first was that we might be jumping to a conclusion and as an accident investigator, that's the hardest thing not to do, is to jump to the most obvious conclusion, and the most coincidental conclusion. so when you look at this video, though, you'll miss things that are in front of your face. and by looking at this video, not the one showing now, but the one prior when we showed the actual impact point, you can see there is nothing leading to that impact point. in a missile explosion, and i've asked spite...

David, we haven't talked to you thus far. what are your thoughts on the information that's come out so far? >> well, anderson, in every investigation i've ever run, most difficult thick thing is not to jump to the most common and accepted answer right away. there are other things. if you to that, you miss what's right in front of your face. and if you look at that video, the first thing you see is the impact and the explosion. if this were a missile, do you think the aircraft would have come down with no smoke, no trail, nothing at all and simply hit the ground and explode on the ground? i don...