Page 12 - Wing Section News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Families. >> it's one thing for people in the media to be going over theories. this is what investigators are doing. they're running through every scenario. >> it's a crude terminology, but david will agree with me, it's called tombstone technology. we learn this from these tragedies, but we do learn something so these people have not gone on or died in vain. >> david gallo, again, from that debris, i know you were working under the water on 447, but it is fascinating even with some pieces of debris you can start to understand what maybe happened to the aircraft based on stresses put on the de...

Confirmation what the objects might be if they see them again. >> it's an incredibly difficult task. first of all, this area, this ocean is wavy, everything is moving, you have white caps, you have potential aircraft structure, which is white. it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. i want to go back to one point, which is important. this satellite image showed something that was 74 feet long by 43 feet wide. >> right. >> i took a look this morning at the wings, the stabilizer. the wing is 200 feet from tip-to-tip. each side is 100 feet. where the wing goes to the fuselage, 40 feet. ...

Looking for with satellite imagery, you don't have a sharp right angle and that looked like a sharp right ang until the debris. but you really need to look at all the swing surfaces on the 777. you have the two wings each side, the vertical stabilizer and the horizontal stabilizer. i've been hearing the plane is 60 feet tall but the vertical stab is not 60 feet tall. it's 60 feet off the ground, but where it meets the fuselage on the back of the plane it's 45 feet tall, and so just by -- if it's 24 meters, then that's clearly not the tail and would point towards a wing section. but the 80-foot...

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...

Realry knreal y know what it was. >> william bell is on the phone right now and he's at the airport. he joins us live. good morning, mr. play mayor. >> good morning, carol. >> it appears from the pictures that this plane literally slammed to the ground. >> yes, it did. we don't know why it did. but it left a pretty long debris field and broke up into several parts with the fuselage and the wing section separated. >> was weather a factor, do you think? >> we can't rule it out 100%, but during that period of time, there was no storms in the area. but we can't rule it out 100%. >> were you at the...