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Way the wreckage is distributed and we see that the tail section is three miles away from the nose of the plane and we have to look to see if there's any sign of an explosion. we have to be very careful of the word of explosion. one very unfamiliar and one familiar. familiar one is the bomb, where there's ignition, smoke and fame. the unfamiliar is an explosive decompression meaning with a failure of the structure of the airplane, the pressure of the air inside the cabin 31,000 feet is far higher than the pressure of the air outside and if anything breaks and allows that pressure to be release...

And french, will be listening for the last words and sounds from the cockpit and any other noises within the plane. that's from the cockpit voice recorder. the flight data recorder should give us an idea of the real speed, the real altitude, how quickly the plane fell. because it seems it fell dramatically and that the speed went from 500 miles an hour down to 70 miles an hour before it hit the ground. a russian aviation ministry person who was at the scene has said that the plane split up in mid-air. it at least broke up in two, indeed the tail section and the nose section were at least three...

Without weapons. all right. joey jackson, mel robbins. thanks so much. >> thank you, fredericka. all right. also, just in to cnn right now, the for first pictures of the russian passenger plane crash site right here. this is the northern sinai peninsula in egypt. officials have pulled 129 bodies from the wreckage. and one image we'll also see there, the black box. the black box, the data recorder. flight data recorder has been retrieved. usually in the tail section of the plane. but you see right here, an assemblage of many people as they try to get to the bottom of why this russian jet fell...

Difficult finding them, as you can see. it is now night here in egypt. what we're also hearing and very crucial, is that the black box, one of the black boxes, the one that is in the tail section, has been recovered. officials are now going over that, to try to determine what, exactly, happened to the plane, after it took off from sharm el sheikh, traveling for 20 minutes, and then it disappeared and then the crash. that is the moment that they are going to be trying to discover what exactly happened, fredricka. >> all right. ian lee, thank you so much. all right, let's talk more about this wi...

Nbc's tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: shotgun blasts in in the pennsylvania countryside. as the military pumped more than 100 rounds into the top secret blimp to let the last of the helium escape. then the delicate job of cutting it out of the trees. crews did manage to roll up the tail section which had separated from the blimp. the mile-long tether that snagged utility lines, causing 30,000 to lose power, also cut into sections and carted away. >> biggest challenge is just the fact that it's very steep terrain down there. there's a stream that runs right through site. and it's heav...