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>> and, richard, based on your coverage of similar tragedies, how long do you expect it to take investigators to find the rest of the plane? they have now found debris. is there a normal duration between finding the debris and finding the rest of the plane or can it take potentially years, even? >> oh, no, not talking years here. we're talking days, maybe weeks. i would not be surprised to find that they locate the main body of the debris, the main debris field, the fuselage in the next 48 hours. thereafter, you're talking about either divers to go down to see with the eyes whether they can fi...

That region have offered even more extensive resources. i'm glad to see the u.s. offer that. i was very critical of the, our lack of effort in the laifz 370. i think we should have dispatched a fleet of maritime patrol airlines to listen for pinger signals when the batteries were operating. i think it's more symbolic. the thing that convinces me that they're going to find this debris is all the commercial traffic, the commercial vessel traffic that's out in those waters. i'm sure they've sent out notices to mariners to be on the lookout. and hopefully the commercial fishermen, the freighters, ...

Down the pinger but it's quite routine. >> richard, how much of the plane would you expect them to bring up? >> it's a very good question. depends how much is bringing up above and any large pieces will be brought up because they will want to reconstruct the aircraft as much as possible. if you look at twa 800, they braugt up an enormous amount of the aircraft because they rebuilt it. that is in the warehouse of the ntsb and the authorities. they won't be able to get it all. it all depends also carol, where the plane and how the plane broke up. did it break up in the air, in which case there w...

And bring the rovs back. >> it's amazing the technology we have. and no toad pinger locaters. we don't have to use that? why. >> you do want to use toad pinger locaters but we do not need the huge systems for flight 37. because the pinger doesn't weigh much. but when you drop it down two miles or three miles, it's steel cable and electrical power and telemetry that weighs and it gets huge. so these smaller systems, we have hand-held systems and pingers on our robots. if we happen to lose a robot. we can put a pinger off the side of the boat and find it ourself. they're common. >> this area is ...

So you take avs or side scan sonars you can map out the whole area once they use pinger, they can map out the area and get good sound images which look like pictures of the wreckage and then they can make dive plans or rov plans, which are remote operated vehicles to manipulate with arms. >> there is such an advantage that this is less than 100 feet deep in some areas because, as you said enough marriage of technology and then the human factor because those human eyes on some of this is going to be -- you can make judgment calls and it goes faster. >> divers are still limited, they only have a...