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Nearby. seeing another airplane as we fly across the indian ocean was not a common occurrence. >> to you. let's focus on the two pieces of what could be possibly debro. could be pieces of a ship although this is not an often traveled route for a ship. the largest piece is 79 feet long and could be part of the plane. what could one learn from these pieces of debris as far as how the plane could have gone down. >> 125rz the pieces themselves, it's most likely they are pieces of the tail section or outward section of the wing. based on the size, it might be too big to be part of the tail. the win...

On the water, even if it broke apart, what would that -- a, is that possible and what would that mean for the size of debris? could that explain the size of debris we're seeing? >> right. and again, the intriguing thing to me is if that's the tail section, that it would contain -- could contain the black boxes, and that would solve a whole lot of the mystery of what's happened here. >> jeff beatty is also joining us, formerly with the fbi, also the cia, also with delta force. jeff, the idea of -- it sounds a soft landing on the ocean. it's certainly very different than, you know, captain sulle...

Slide raft combinations, when you open the door, we would have known about it immediately and it would have been 12 days ago. if this is debris, it's unlikely that we would have survivors. i hate to say that. >> i know the black box is orange, but everyone knows it is the black box and it's kept in the tail. that's what was found two years after air france and that held the secret as far as what happened to take the plane down. how difficult is it to find the tail? is it likely to float? >> no, the tail itself will float, but the black box is probably not still in the tail section in a break u...

Get pieces of this jet, they'll be able to know relatively quickly whether there had been a fire inside that cabin that would have facilitated this series of thoughts about how this may have gone down. you're going to know very quickly once you retrieve parts of this if there was a fire. >> it depends on the pieces they find. if you recall in the air france crash in 2009, one of the first big pieces they found was the tail section. and of course the triple 7 is a hugely composite structure airplane, as opposed to the old days where they were built mostly out of aluminum. so that lends itself t...

What i hope they have, like a wing, descriptive of a tail section or something that shows malaysian airlines markings. otherwise i'm nervous that it's premature. one of the good things you mentioned, it's about 78 feet, the largest piece, which is a third the length or width of a triple seven, give or take a couple feet. so that would be encouraging. that that could be related to a debris field for this airplane. >> for viewers who haven't been following, this jet is, give or take, a couple hundred feet long and with the wing span, a couple hundred feet across. is that correct? >> that's corre...