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>> in every major crash investigation that's what you do. you map where you find pieces because there may be crucial clues as to how the pieces are left. in this case a striking amount. the blowback from the plane itself, the law of physics, the opposite reaction from hitting the mountain will cause pieces to be widely dispersed but they want to answer other questions. was there an explosion when it hit the mountain of the fuel tank? a fire or not a fire. curious it doesn't look like there was a fire. all of these things that they can help answer by mapping the debris field. >> richard, when y...

Plowed right? >> right. it had been plowed just minutes before. other aircraft the two aircraft before him, came down and said that they had good braking action. a plane landing on that runway actually that pier is about 1,000 feet long, and when he touched down, he would have touched down either right at the edge of the pier or even onto solid ground. that long piece on the end is really an overrun area used for planes taking off in the opposite direction. he was several thousand feet down the runway when he left it. >> so maybe the ice didn't factor in. we don't really know. >> we don't know...

Harrison ford battered and bruised and in the hospital this morning. luckily he's doing okay after crash landing that plane on to a golf course. we have new information about how this all happened ahead. a close call at laguardia airport, a delta plane skids off the runway crashing just feet from an icy bay. thousands of flights canceled the roads are just awful, after a severe storm pummeled the northeast. we'll tell you what you can expect today. welcome back to "early start," everyone. i'm john berman. >> ice i'm christine romans. it is friday. a lot going on. ntsb investigators are o...

Safe for traffic than interstate 95. we just don't have the same ability in the terms of sand and salt on it. you just can't do it. it would ruin the aircraft engines immediately. out there and walk and slip and fall, that's it. can't land. >> putting salt on the runway is corrosion issue, isn't it? >> it's not just a corrosion issue if they spread it like they do on the highways. you go out and can hear the salt hitting your engine and all of that. you know they load it up. anything like that, not only corrodes the plane, it would destroy the plane itself, the engines and electronics. the eng...

That. one is direct observation. i heard a report of maybe seeing a shadow of a plane. that needs to be checked out. the other is reverse drifting of the debris, and that's probably going on right now. then there's listening for the pingers on the black boxes. that will take you to the black boxes and there will be the fuselage. and finally, there's a sonar search to look for the fuselage and wreckage on the bottom. all those things are probably under way right now or being prepared to be put under way. once that happens, two things happen. one is a humanitarian effort from recovering the bodi...