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Long and 15 feet long, if this type of plane, the 777 were to create a debris field what is likely to match up with 78-foot or 15-foot object in your mind? >> there's two parts of the airplane really that could match up to that. one, it could be a wing panel because the wing span is over 200 feet. it could be a large section of wing panel. or it could be a large section of the fuj laselage, whether th crown portion or belly of the aircraft and could be a large section of fuselage. you have to look at the shape again. that is the thing i was looking for with the chinese photo to see if it was s...

The 777 is a very big airplane. no question about that. if you were to walk from one side of the plane to the other on the wings you'd walk about 36 feet from wing tip to wing tip. it's about 200 feet. so is there a way that you could tear this apart and reshape it to make three great big pieces like that? maybe. but like the search area, anderson, it's right on the edge of possibility. and that's what's fuelling a lot of the healthy skepticism right now even as people continue this grim grim business of trying to find out what happened to this plane. >> a lot of the experts we're talking to f...

The 777 is a very big aircraft. no question about it. about 200 feet wingtip to wi wingtip on this plane. to get something this big or three pieces that big out of this, not really that easy. so you are correct. we'll move the airplane now and look at the space again. once again we're back to all these competing questions about what happened. we have the image from the chinese which has been discounted. the mystery of where the plane went. the errant radar ping which drew the whole search over into the strait of malacca. it's all very confusing. and i want to point out something, carol. you ta...

If you were to walk from one side of the plane to the other on the wings, you would walk about 36 feet from wing tip to wing tip, it's about 200 feet. so is there a way that you could tear this apart and reshape it to make three big pieces like that? maybe. but like the search area, anderson, it's right on the edge of possibility, and that's what is fueling a lot of the healthy skepticism right now, even as people continue this grim business of trying to find out what happened to this plane. >> again, so much we don't know. i want to bring in u.s. navy commandy william marks on board the "uss ...

It's important to bear that in mind. if you were to start on that wing over there, if you stood on the wing and you could walk right through the middle of the plane to the other wing, when you stepped out on the other side, you would have covered about 36 feet. that gives you an idea how big it is. if you started on a wing tip and you walked all the way to other wing tip over there, 212 feet. so yes, wolf, you could get pieces that big out of an airplane this large. and that is another reason why they were looking at this evidence so closely and wondering if this leads to the very grim busines...