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Down. aside from rough weather, the search zone is about 60,000 square miles. to put that into perspective it's bigger than the state of florida. once officials locate the plane the next challenge begins pulling the wreckage from the water. let's bring in cnn's senior washington correspondent he has more on that good morning, joe johns. >> good morning carol t is an enormous job and can take a long time. they have to map out where all of the pieces of the plane are, like how crime scene technicians log the evidence when and where they find it and then the heavy lifting begins. how do you pull ...

More and more likely crews will find the plane at the bottom of the java sea. about ten to 15 stories deep. hopefully, that will make the search and salvage operation a little bit easier. cnn's joe johns reports how the plane could be recovered from the sea floor. >> reporter: how do you pull a plane up from the bottom of the ocean? >> what you want to do first is to really map the entire accident scene. >> reporter: we spoke with peter goelz, a former investigator with ntsb who worked on the recovery and rebuilding of twa flight 800 that crashed after takeoff from new york city. >> you docume...

Can be done by adsb. >> that's the essence of the problem for tracking the plane. we are talking about the actions of the pilot, not the tracking of the airplane. >> the actions of the pilot can be derived from the fdr and cbr. we have been using the system for years and it's not really broken. it's the fact we can't find the plane is the single point of failure. we can't do that because transponders can be turned off. we can solve that problem pretty quickly. >> go ahead, jeff wise. >> listen, don, i'm sympathetic to what you are saying. we all have cameras on us all the time. you know who do...

An aircraft is hostile or not? >> this you can't. this wasn't wearing a squawk. it's dropped off. it's not flight planned in the direction that it's going. ifr or vfr. this is a suspicious airplane. remember all the information we've got about a climb to 39,000 feet and then over on the western side of malaysia we have this information about it dropping to 4,000 feet and then climbing again. that to me, if it's not hostile, it's very suspicious. >> the prime minister, even when richard quest pushed him to say, isn't thaechb more of a reason to put a plane up there to investigate, all of this p...

Be derived from the fdr and cbr. we have been using the system for years and it's not really broken. it's the fact we can't find the plane is the single point of failure. we can't do that because transponders can be turned off. we can solve that problem pretty quickly. >> go ahead, jeff wise. >> listen, don, i'm sympathetic to what you are saying. we all have cameras on us all the time. you know who doesn't is ceos, the president, people who run things -- >> the president has cameras on him all the time. there is a camera in air force one. >> the people that don't get watched are running the s...