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Was really not ripped apart in the air because things would have been scattered over a much wider area. so it looks from the wreckage and from the pieces of the plane that we've seen that it impacted the water at obviously very high rate of speed, not a water landing, and objects are coming from the fuselage. >> so thomas i guess the search area is now the size of delaware which is pretty sizable but, i don't know in your estimation is that so big that it will take forever to perhaps find the entire tail section with the black boxes? >> no that really shouldn't take as long as -- well, the pin...

As it sits. >> got you. supposedly according to local reports parts of the tale have been identified and found and an oil slick by where parts of the tail were found. >> if it's an oil slick and continuing to just appear and maintain itself then they could be close to the area where the main part of the plane hits. there are wrecks we dive from world war ii that are oil is still seeping out of and leaving a slick. i was on one this summer off of north carolina. >> in the tail is where you expect to find them in the tail section. >> yesterday you were talking about the black suitcase that was f...

Down so we were calculating in a v-shape where the debris might have gone. as difficult as that is, this is much more difficult because here's the situation. if you find debris, which we have here, now you've got to reverse calculate where the debris came from. so as this "v" is this way and we're looking this way, now we've got the debris here, we're trying to find out where this spot is, which literally could be anywhere based on the currents, on the winds. there's so many different factors in here. even as we find debris, until we can get a good idea of where things are through sonar, that'...

Downloading is like downloading a computer disk and it looks like an ekg. what takes longer on that is to decipher it all and get the significance of what was found. but think have a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder within a couple days after finding it. >> and thomas last question for you. i know they want to bring up as much of the plane as possible. how long might that take? >> well, that's very hard to estimate. it really depends as i think was stated earlier how wide the debris field is and what the fuselage and the tail section and such look like. if it's relatively intact they c...

The black boxes and the fact that that has been complicated, are you concerned that the black boxes could move potentially while they wait out the conditions? >> i think they can move but i don't know if that will be a major move. it depends upon how much of the tail section they are in. we are talking about a major portion, they may not move. there is weight and stability with that. if it's just the vertical and the horizontal there, it may be susceptible to some movement. i don't think that will be the major thing. once we hear the pings, we are home free and able to move nicely. >> based on...