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Greg feith, which is, basically, does the size or the reported size of the debris that was spotted by the satellite make sense in terms of this type of aircraft? >> gene, there is one piece, that piece 78, 79 feet long, that could be part of this airplane. when you consider that the wing span on the airplane is almost 200 feet that would be a little over, you know, about a hundred foot per wing and the tail section is about 60, 65 feet. that piece that is 79 feet long could be either a wing panel or part of a fuselage panel. so there is a little bit of hope there that, yeah, this piece does ma...

Fox since the flight disappeared, especially with that false alarm with the chinese satellite images, that the type of debris that would survive an impact into the ocean, would be the large sections of the aircraft. so the wing span, which is about 210 feet, and then that tail section which would be the horizontal stabilizer, as well as the vertical fin. and finally, i would just say that as you rightly point out, the weather may be one of the biggest unknowables in this situation. it seems to have made it harder to discern what exactly has shown up in that section of the ocean by the satellit...

This. he was very polite. not only is this investigation complicated by a lot of countries but the malaysians have handled it as badly you can imagine an investigation to be handled. they wouldn't bring in international help and not let the fbi in and released information that turned out to be wrong and released other information and i think it leads to a lot of the frustration and unhappiness we have that we know so little is the way the investigation has been handled. >> thailand took ten days to say we spot something on our radar and we didn't toll you because you didn't ask. astonishing to...

Large. the biggest appears to be estimated to be around 80 feet long. >> that is about a third of the links or the west if you include the wing span. of they have consultant and president of integrated aviation solution he joins us on the phone. good morning to you, ken. >> good morning. we are providing more information. press conference coming up in 10, 15 minutes. we are going to go live with that. as of now the latest press conference the off fifrp shallings were saying locating the objects may not turn out to be related at all to this search. how long before we find out if if it is the de...

What i hope they have, like a wing, descriptive of a tail section or something that shows malaysian airlines markings. otherwise i'm nervous that it's premature. one of the good things you mentioned, it's about 78 feet, the largest piece, which is a third the length or width of a triple seven, give or take a couple feet. so that would be encouraging. that that could be related to a debris field for this airplane. >> for viewers who haven't been following, this jet is, give or take, a couple hundred feet long and with the wing span, a couple hundred feet across. is that correct? >> that's corre...