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>> miles, does that seem possible to you as well? structure on the ocean, obviously different on an ocean than in a river as sully sullenberger famously did in the river here? >> depends on who's flying if it's the autopilot or human being. if it's the autopilot and it's set for a specific speed and altitude, the autopilot will desperately try to maintain both as long as it can even as the engines run dry. what happens as it does that is the nose just starts pitching upward to about a 40-degree upward pitch. that's not a good situation for any aircraft, you can imagine. so then the autopilot g...

Hit belly smack, belly first, and the wings were pretty much compressed, everything forward in pretty good shape. it was pretty clear that the plane came down tail first. >> mary schiavo, you can look at all the facts, the airplane that they abandoned. they don't have the information, trying to do the best they can. clearly there is this group, though, the national group based in kuala lumpur, which is trying to base together -- they brought experts from all over the world to try to sort through the data that exists and that is the group that has come up with this latest information. >> right,...

This operation-- the business end of this operation was over in about 2 minutes. they landed on the roof, they dropped down onto the terrace and this was done. >> these things are quiet but they are not silent. he could feel them landing on the roof. the 45-minute fire fight story, the story of the crash at insertion, you know, you pick which story -- for them to put together. it's -- none of them made sense. >> so they let the guys down out of the helicopter and it moved over to -- >> that's correct. >> 12 to 18 minutes bot mission, the helicopter was on the roof, it was moving to another pos...

This operation-- the business end of this operation was over in about 2 minutes. they landed on the roof, they dropped down onto the terrace and this was done. >> these things are quiet but they are not silent. he could feel them landing on the roof. the 45-minute fire fight story, the story of the crash at insertion, you know, you pick which story -- for them to put together. it's -- none of them made sense. >> so they let the guys down out of the helicopter and it moved over to -- >> that's correct. >> 12 to 18 minutes bot mission, the helicopter was on the roof, it was moving to another pos...