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This is all pure speculation and assumption on our part if it is indeed related to the environment and thunderstorms, it could be related from the stand point of we haven't discussed the fact that the air france accident occurred as a result of the tubes freezing up giving erroneous information to the crew. >> tell us what those are? >> the pito tubes are instruments or they are tubes on the bottom of the airplane that pick up air speed, basically, related to air speed. and in addition to their static ports related to altitude. and this all ties into what we call an air data computer and the c...

Something that doesn't belong. >> one of the processing guys says what about this as it was coming across the screen for the first time. >> the team sends the vehicles back down. this time, to take photos. when the images are revealed, they showed landing gear, engines, and pieces of fuselage. there's no doubt that air france has been found nearly two full years after it disappeared. 140 bodies are recovered along with the wreckage. investigators also uncover the flight recorders that uncover just what happened. >> back-to-back, the pito tubes iced up. they're critical to provide information t...

Something that doesn't belong. >> one of the processing guys says what about this as it was coming across the screen for the first time. >> the team sends the vehicles back down. this time, to take photos. when the images are revealed, they showed landing gear, engines, and pieces of fuselage. there's no doubt that air france has been found nearly two full years after it disappeared. 140 bodies are recovered along with the wreckage. investigators also uncover the flight recorders that uncover just what happened. >> back-to-back, the pito tubes iced up. they're critical to provide information t...

>> effectively, what they did was they gave us a smaller hay stack to look in and there was a needle. >> on sonar, it appears as a smudge on the sea floor. something that doesn't belong. >> one of the processing guys says what about this as it was coming across the screen for the first time. >> the team sends the vehicles back down. this time, to take photos. when the images are revealed, they showed landing gear, engines, and pieces of fuselage. there's no doubt that air fraces has been found nearly two full years after it disappeared. 140 bodies are recovered along with the wreckage. investi...