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Situation room." what do you think, tom? >> you would think it would make no difference whatsoever, but that's not the case. the way the plane hits the water actually does make a difference. malaysia air 370 crashes into the sea, but how it hit could make a big difference in the debris field they are seeking. if the plane cart wheeled in like this hijacked ethiopian jet in 1996, the destruction would be tremendous. how does that happen? one wing dips lower than the other and catches the water first. cnn aviation analyst and former pilot mark weiss. >> if it goes into a cart wheel, what's that ...

Necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a mid-air explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. weiss says the same thing could be true if malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft and things would have come out, so you would have had more debris along a longer flight path. >> a hard land...

Debris field. >> remember, that water was very, very choppy. it would take some of the pieces and wash it away and some of it would absolutely -- it would have broken it up in lots of different areas and it would have just thrown it really all around. >> reporter: still, that does not necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a midair explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa flight 800, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all of the parts. weiss says the same thing could happen with malaysia flight if it c...

Time is clearly ticking for search crews scouring the southern indian ocean right now for any sign of flight 370. the battery life of the data recorder pingers last just about 30 days, that means they're due to run out of power on monday. maybe they'll last a little bit longer, tuesday or wednesday, we'll see. but let's bring in our panel of experts to talk about today's developments. mark weiss, former 777 pilot for american airlines. peter goelz, former ntsb managing director. tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. tom, so australian officials, they say they have a major announce...

And inevitably at least over the past four weeks we have been disappointed. but they say big announcement, what are they talking about? sfwl i don't know, wolf. i agree. how many times have they done this now, raise the expectations, raise the excitement level only to find nothing. and i mean, send the ship out there and find something then you can jump up and down about it. >> but they did say now that they're looking at a specific area. they're sending the ship with sonar to look at a specific area, which indicates to me maybe they're onto something that they haven't told us about yet. >> ma...