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Wing. Australia and u. S. Aircraft reached the area today but so far have found nothing. Visibility was limited because of rain and clouds. But search planes are due to return in the area at sunrise, thats just about five hours from now. And a norwegian cargo ship is continuing to hunt for the debris around the clock. Officials stress the objects may just be ocean garbage, like a container that may have fallen off of a ship. But they also say the sighting is the best lead theyve gotten so far. Our experience is that there is debris out there from ships for example falling overboard and other o...

>> some have suggested even if it were cruising on automatic pilot, say the pilots were disabled for whatever reason, runs out of fuel, it could still glide for a while before it actually went into the water. >> yeah. aircraft are inherently stable. but obviously gravity is a very large pull. so had that scenario been the case, then the aircraft would have kept flying. but it would have glided and it would have had a fairly decent glide angle. and that distance would have increased. >> does this tell us -- let's say this is the debris, peter, from the plane. does it give us an indication wheth...

To be brought in, whether they need experts from the software company. but as far as the degree of the data that was deleted, whether the captain, you know, or someone else used sophisticated software security technology that would overwrite the data and so forth, we should be able to find the degree of deletions relatively soon, today, the next day, couple days. but as far as what's on that hard drive, that could take much longer. it could take weeks. we just don't know at this point because we are still in the early stages how long it will take. but as one of my sources said it could take so...