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Portion of the aircraft. the vertical stabilizer often floats, the tail. but this has been three weeks. that's a long time for metal to be floating. my guess is we're looking at much lighter stuff in the ocean now. >> miles, you covered a lot of these stories. were you encouraged by what you heard this naval commander say? >> that p-8 is the best tool in the toolbox. >> the poseidon. >> the most advanced surveillance -- >> they've got all sorts of technology on there that could presumably spot this. >> no question. >> it's usually looking for submarines. >> it does have a search and rescue com...

Based on what you know about the way planes break up in a situation like this, clive, what are your thoughts on the size of the objects the satellites are actually picking up? >> well, i would be looking for most importantly i think i would be looking for two things, i would be looking for parts of the tail system, the vertical stabilizer, and the horizontal stabilizer, buzz they do break up. and normally they float. and i would hope to see also because we keep talking about this 70-foot-plus piece of debris, that's come up several times. that would match the one-half of the wing, left or righ...

>> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 330. to answer them, investigators will need to locate the main fuselage. these brightly colored orange devices are commonly known as black boxes. >> those boxes will put out a ping signal or audible signal with sonar to listen for it. if that box is buried under wreckage or stuck in the mud, you won't have a...

Plane. could it be a piece of the wing, could it be a piece of the tail, we don't know. remember, that in the case of the air france crash back in 2009, they found that vertical stabilizer, the tail, they found that within five days. they knew immediately, of course, therefore, the plane did crash in the atlantic ocean, then it was a matter of trying to find the actual wreckage. we don't know specifically what the concrete evidence is right now suggesting that, in fact, flight 370 has crashed, but clearly, the malaysians believe all the evidence, photographic evidence, satellite evidence, and ...

But there are large stretches of the ocean where it's uncovered by radar because the radar equipment needs to be on land. >> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 3350. to answer them, investigators will need to low kat the main fuselage. these brightly colored orange devices are commonly known as black boxes. >> those boxes were put out a ping sign...