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Bodies were found intact. we know in that case the plane hit the surface at about i want to say 130, 150 miles per hour that kind of speed range. many of them -- the fuselage remained largely intact and went to the bottom in large pieces. people did -- were scattered as well. so it's hard to know. >> we hope the weather clears and we can get answers. jeff wise thanks for coming up. still to come in the "newsroom," it could be a week until the black boxes on board flight 8501 are located. we'll talk about that next. well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you...

>> back now with breaking news flight 8501 found at the bottom of the java sea. back with me now, mary sciavo jeff wise. want to get your reaction. haven't spoke tine you much this evening. what is your reaction to this new information about the plane being found or located on sonar? >> it happened so quickly. we were optimistically this would happen sooner or later. probably not this soon. normally what would happen you would find debris on the surface. and track back to the area where you would start doing a search or scan. and where it is located to find the acoustics, the black box, and th...

>> 7005, alpha departure 8501. >> what else can we learn from the debris found in the java sea? author of malaysia airlines flight 370 why it disappeared and only a matter of time before this happens again, written before the latest missing plane. also with us jeff wise science writer and author of "extreme fear." thank you, both, for being here. david, let's start with you. we have some pictures of the debris they've collected so far. when you take a look. you've seen some of them from other reporting we've been doing, what strikes you about what they've pulled out of the water? >> well appea...

Prevented the accident. we look for that and that's what the ntsb is finding, how could it have been prevented? what the clues lead us to is back up that chain of events through the swiss cheese is what we were talking about before. the defenses are the swiss cheese and the holes in those defenses -- when they line up and failures occur, that's when an accident happens. the ability to trace that back and find out what was the latened causes? was there a failure in the system of being able to identify the storms? or was it a decision-making process? a distraction in the cockpit, perhaps. all of...

A role. it may be that a mechanical defect played a role. these things happen because you get a cancatenation of problems. it's not because you have a problem. i should add what airbus will do probably presuming they recover the black boxes is provide its interpretation of the crew conversations, of the mechanical inputs of the readings from the airplane. there will be a lot of others who do that also. these are multipart investigations with a lot of different parties who either arrive at a consensus or there's some authority that arrives at the consensus. that's how -- you don't let the airli...