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Know at that point roughly where the plane went down, but a lot more knowledge than flee 370 researchers. >> yes, we did. we knew where the flight 800 landed. we had eyewitness reports and we were on scene within hours. going down. the coast guard and the navy were there. the person you saw on that was the first on the scene from the u.s. navy. and that aircraft went into only approximately 120 feet of water. instead of what we are looking at here with flight 370, possibly 14,000 feet of water. we have the huge order of difference in the aircraft. we used navy divers on flight 800. the navy di...

Teams are prepared to do the same. >> if it's small, you can put a basket so they can pick it up and put it in. >> the remote under water vehicles can only carry about 4,000 pounds. anything heavier like a large piece of the fuselage will have to be attached to a cable and pulled to the surface by a crane on the ship. keep in mind this could be happening miles but low the surface. incredibly difficult task. still no doubt salvage teals will keep their eyes peeled for the black box, hoping to get much needed answers first. randi kay, cnn, new york. >> my next guest played a key role in the u.s....

>> this is what it looks like. you are watching a u.s. navy salvage team gather pieces of twa flight 800 which went down off of new york.n are maneuveri pieces. >> he has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvages including twa 800 and swiss air 111 that crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. were both in water much shallower. the navy has remote under water vehicles designed for deep water salvage operations. they can go as deep as 20,000 feet, but the deeper the recovery, the slower the process. >> it takes about an hour for

What are your concerns about how they would be handled, how they would be contained while in transit, kerry? >> that's really not in my area of work. but my concern would be that they would document very precisely the size, the location of the pieces of debris that they recover off the surface so that we can hind cast that back and look through the set and drift data to figure out where the plane actually impacted. that's very important. >> and john goglia, what are your concerns, if any, about how items might be retrieved, how they're investigated, how they're handled, how they're transported...

Trying to find the debris field. and then you step it up to something called an rov, remote operating vehicle and what it is, these are robots that have little hands and claws and a lot of times they are equipped with high-resolution cameras and are able to find those critical pieces of the wreckage, things like the data recorder, erin, which, in this case, we are all waiting to see and hear what is going to be in that data recorder that will tell us what happened to that plane and all those people onboard. >> so many questions. these are the questions. thanks to you, rosa. i want to talk mo...