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Investigators have said it's going to take a few days at least before they can really confirm what those satellite images show. but what do you see in the satellite images? what can we glean about the size? the largest is about 79 feet. what do you see in the images? >> as tom said earlier in his piece, you know, anything that's 78 or 79, 80 feet, there's only two possibilities really, one is part of the wing section, you have a wing span of over 200 feet. that means each wing is better than 100 feet. then of course the fuselage is around 200 feet long and again, it could be a portion of the f...

>> so there are inspections of all planes before they, you know, take off, before passengers board. would a crack be detected? can it be detected, a crack that would be significant enough to cause this kind of peeling back in the fuselage, can that be overlooked or would it be that obvious? >> no, this kind of crack is not obvious, even to mechanics in some regards only because of its location. when you look at where it cracked, it was in what they call the crown of the airplane which is above the window belt where the windows are. and it's not visually inspected by the flight crew as they do ...