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When investigators were able to salvage pieces of the jet's lavatory, beverage carts, even the engines. >> a tail section, a wing, a piece of the wing. one of the two engines. that would be an excellent clue because basically you could start at that point and work your way out and hope to find more wreckage. >> reporter: but first something, anything, has to be found to produce the lead that's eluded the world for more than five weeks. david mattingly, cnn, daytona beach, florida. >> fascinating, thank you, david. when searchers do find pieces of this plane, what can they learn from them? we'r...

In the water. >> in this industry, that is what you have if it gets to the crash site. >> but what happens if it is in water? >> water is going to act like land would, it is not compressible. so when you hit it it will pretty much have the same effect that land would. >> making it much more problematic to detect with sonar at the bottom of the ocean. bri he says it would be hopeful they could find tonight way they did with air france 447. >> a tail section, a wing, a piece of a wing, one of the two engines may be fully intact at the bottom of the sea, that would be an excellent clue because yo...

Atmospheres sitting on top of the airplane that can push it down. so it's a very difficult condition. >> difficult to find any wreckage, and then to recover wreckage, equally difficult. >> to lift the stuff, for example to get the black box out of the tail section. if they have to dismantle it and the plane is sitting there not broken up, then that's going to be a big task. things like bluefin are not equipped to do that, so you need ships at the fas that will lower equipment to go in and do the job of dismantling or lifting stuff that needs to be lifted up from the surface that deep. >> the m...

These are located well inside the electronic bays of the 777. for them to be, quote, unquote, ejected and not have anything else around them would seem very odd to me. >> because the black boxes are in the tail section of the plane. is that the heaviest part of the plane? >> they're designed and put there because theoretically that is the part that gets the least amount of impact depending on the type of incident or accident you have. so they specifically try to locate them away from where the brunt of the impact would be. >> will, one last question for you. the search by air for debris, has i...

Box send something down to try to extract and separate that tail section black box up alone. tail section after you lift the tail section off the obama. >> that is mammoth on a 7777. >> it is mammoth and 15,000 feet. it takes some very specialized equipment. but we have the equipment. we recovered entire heel lows from 19,000 feet before. we have capacity to make lifts from that depth it is a slowly and tedious process to get ready to make a lift like that. and we certainly have the people with the experience to do it. >> just hypothetically, if this is the right place, and let's say it is sti...