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Circular object, green in color. take a look at the remnants of asiana crash 214 that went down in san francisco over the summer. look at the tail section here. that crash, a 777, just like -- very much like the malaysian air flight, if you take a look at another angle of it, right there at the tail cone, the tail snapped off, the vertical and horizontal stabilizer snapped off but there you have a circular structure, green in color. is that what we've seen bobbing in the indian ocean? we don't know. but there are indications, at least, that some of the debris that they are starting to find may...

Japan airlines flight 123. it is a tragedy with many clues tonight but no hard answers yet. >> it takes rescuers a half a day to get to the remote spot where japan airlines, jal flight 123, has slammed into a mountain northwest of tokyo. when stress investigators finally reach the crash site they begin combing the wreckage for clues. miraculously, they find something they didn't expect. two women and two young girls have survived. >> the four people that survived the accident were seated in the aft section of the plane. when the airplane struck the ground the tail section broke from the main s...

Underwater. the techniques that they are using now, and i heard they are bringing in the hydrophones in, and to me, that means that they -- that is a seven-mile bubble on the acoustic pinger on the black box and that is not a big area. so the only thing that i can think of bringing that in that early or talking about bringing that in early is that the big section might have been the tail, or assumed that it is the tail section and if it is the acoustic pingers may pick it up seven miles drifting, and it is a long shot, but probably why they were doing it, because acoustic pingers are way too e...

Comes with the turf. >> david gallo, we're looking at images from that air france flight. do you remember how big the biggest piece of debris was? it looks like a lot of pieces are the size of a desk or bigger. obviously there was that tail section. >> sure. i think the tail section was the largest. i don't think there were any pieces like the ones we're talking about here. i think that tail section was the largest piece. there were bits of the galley and the like. >> okay. mary schiavo, obviously the weather not only makes the search harder, it can also cause da breed to degrade over time, ev...

Greg feith, which is, basically, does the size or the reported size of the debris that was spotted by the satellite make sense in terms of this type of aircraft? >> gene, there is one piece, that piece 78, 79 feet long, that could be part of this airplane. when you consider that the wing span on the airplane is almost 200 feet that would be a little over, you know, about a hundred foot per wing and the tail section is about 60, 65 feet. that piece that is 79 feet long could be either a wing panel or part of a fuselage panel. so there is a little bit of hope there that, yeah, this piece does ma...