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Plane what does that tell you about the particular incident? >> well, the good news is they found the wreckage. they're beginning the process of recovering bodies of the passengers and the crew. i know, that's a priority for the president of the company. it also means that we're closer to finding the tail section of the plane which is where the black boxes are stored and where they operate. and those black boxes will be the keys to the puzzle to help us understand exactly what happened before the accident and at the time of the accident. >> it's probably hard to tell, from your experience are ...

Health notes the patient did not have any symptoms upon arrival in the u.s. and had no known exposure to ebola in liberia. there may be a new clue in the search for answers after that virgin galactic air ship crashed. this morning, investigators say the feathering system deployed before the craft reached the appropriate speed. that system is part of the unique tail section and is supposed to slow the descent. the fuel take and motor survived intact which will greatly help the investigation. here's alex perez. >> reporter: ntsb investigators in the mojave desert hunting for clues that may tel...

>> from the cockpit voice recorder, that is a good possibility. however, because of the way it was hit, because the tail section was on its way off during the collision or with the debris, i'm not sure that it had power to continue to record the sounds from that point forward. however, the flight data recorder would have a lot of really critical information. if you align -- if someone questions whether it's a missile or where it might have come from, you could look at the perforation marks of the side of the aircraft. the flight data recorder would tell you exactly the position of the aircraft...

>> i wouldn't think so the only thing left of this site that would give this evidence is in the tail section and some of the debris field areas there. the main part of the aircraft has been completely destroyed and temperature far beyond what the shrapnel would have been able to withstand. >> how concerned are you about the physical evidence? >> i think the physical evidence is significant. when i worked with investigators, they want to know everything about everything. not only the physical evidence, you can find.field, but i've been wopdering if they have a facility where they can reconstruc...

If the missile hit there why does the missile section appear intact? >> the missile throws debris at the aircraft. it explodes before it hits and impacts, so with that a case to me, those pieces of debris separated the tail from the aircraft. so the aircraft was -- the tail was gone before the aircraft went down or caught on fire. so this piece of the tail is where you would find the black boxes. if the black boxes were in that tail, though, there's a possibility they broke loose from the aircraft at that point. if that happened, they could be anywhere up around the countryside. they're heavy ...