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Let's go to our national correspondent suzanne malveaux. she's near the home of a mother and daughter on the plane. a sad scene over there, i'm sure. >> reporter: it's so so sad, wolf. think about it. you have this internatio close to home here in virginia. the family is grieving inside that home. we did reach out to a relative and got a statement. i'm going to read it to you. saying our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses two wonderful, caring amazing people who meant so much to so many people. we're learning more about the three americans, two from virginia, who lost their lives h...

This plane was obliterated. how challenging is this operation for the people there trying to recover what's left? >> reporter: it really can't be overstated too much of how difficult it is. it's a very narrow valley where the crash site is. the helicopters can't land. they literally have to lower people by rope. that means when they lower them in they are limited with the amount of equipment, can't land a group of people. they are not able to take a large amount of equipment off quickly. that slows things down. the hillside very steep and fragile, accident investigators say. the hillside itsel...

>> let me get david to react. what do you think? >> there's a lot of precautions in that. it's possible that that could happen. he raises very good points that we examined all the point when we went forward with trying to put those doors and lock those doors when the faa investigated how to respond to the risk to the hazard. he brings good points. each of those things are addressed within the airlines. >> richard quest, i assume they're looking at the background of all 150 people on that plane, right? >> the u.s. said from their knowledge, there's no criminal background worthy of note for many...

Other just underneath the tail of the aircraft. >> brian, thanks very much. once again, we are joined by our aviation analyst peter goalz, former national transportation safety board managing director. the pictures of the debris tell us a lot. they are stunning aren't they? >> they are stunning and they are just terribly depressing when you see that. >> show us some of them. >> here's one that's been widely distributed. it's a shot of the fuselage. you can see along here where the composite material has been ripped from the mainframe. you see the windows, openings that are there. what it does ...

Be right at the crime scene right now. what they would be doing is gathering the flight manifest information, passenger list crew list information about the pilot, co-pilot to run through fbi data bases all over the world. and to assist the french the spanish and the german authorities and the other countries with nationals on the plane, in notifying them communicating with them about the passengers that were on that plane. >> in other words, you go through all 150 people on the plane. the pilot, the co-pilot flight attendants all the passengers and you have their names and what do you look fo...