we'll know the cruise input into the controls and was there anything wrong with the plane and was it responding normally. it depends on which box they have. and the bea, which is the equivalent of the ntsb in france will be reading out that recorder tonight and have that information tomorrow. >> and john what, does the size of the debris field tell you? does that tell you anything about what possibly could have happened here? >> i think the size of the debris field is going to indicate, as tom said earlier, the fact that it hit at a high speed. >> looking at the pieces small pieces indicate that the airplane was at a high speed when it impacted. an when you have something like that occur, the resulting explosion from the impact it can hurl pieces for quite some