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There are 15,000 interviews. in the 9/11 cases we conducted 157 depositions. behind the scenes also there's a tremendous amount of forensic evidence that is gathered through other methods, so i certainly don't mean to suggest that the guilty can't be brought to justice. i think they can. it's compromised by not having a good investigation scene. >> and david, will we be able to know exactly what happened? you know, where this missile hit, what happened onboard that plane? will we figure that out? i guess the black boxes, perhaps, might be important in that. we don't know where they are right n...

Picture, investigators wouldn't have much to work off of. it's changing so quickly because it's being contaminated and uncontrolled, and i also think the media presence here is actually helping by shining a light on the situation and creating international pressure and in a situation that should not be this way. there are two points that are really important. the first one is fred, we're showing you the tail section of the plane. okay? this live shot is really about what we're not showing you. so much of this is still so raw and unpreserved. i've never seen anything like it. a couple of days i...

Tail section off the fuselage. it was ruled pilot error. nothing wrong with the plane. in 2009, a similar story for air france 447. the airbus jumbo jet, crashing into the atlantic after the pilot misread on instrument. all 228 passengers and crew were killed. aviation consultant john nance says pilots relying too much on instruments is the biggest problem in an otherwise safe industry. >> that's why the asiana accident last year was so infuriating. two -- rather three people who were system operators and not pilots. >> reporter: the planes themselves rarely faulted. the most recent internatio...

>> how do you mean? >> not associated with the explosion. >> how do you mean? >> once the aircraft is incapacitated in flight, it begins a fall, and the stresses of gravity and air speed and the stresses being exerted on the fuselage itself will cause parts of the aircraft to depart from the main stay of the airplane. this is why you see wing sections in different locations, tail section in different locations, the engines are in different locations. and all of that will have to be gathered together and then reconstructed and then the investigators will be able to determine which came apart at...

I did notice one thing that we chatted about on the split screen, the tail section, which wasn't on fire, in an open field which would indicate that the aircraft came apart, maybe not at altitude but before parts of it came off before it hit the ground. >> jim cavanaugh, i want to bring you in here. the idea of how it's going to be investigated, who is going to have the chain of custody of the raw data, the information, the debris field, et cetera. walk us through what an investigator would want to have in order to get to the bottom of what happened. what would be needed by law enforcement to ...