in this case the primary energy this wreckage was absorbed by the right front cockpit cockpit. it has two jet engines just like the malaysian aircraft but in fact it s 10,000 pounds versus the 777 which was 600,000 pounds. fit broke up that debris floor would be massive. exactly right. so this is a wing that crashed into the water. tracing the front leading edge of this right wing. this wing hid the water. the water being a very, very hard surface when you hit it fast. and that 777 would be moving much higher speed.
is out of the hospital. this is the file picture that he has been released from houston and will be back home for the new year. let s turn now back to that other breaking news from the tragic day from flight 8501 the passengers and the crew. the families first learned of the bodies found from a local television feed. they were watching live tv airing gruesome pictures while officials were trying to give them an uh date. that has been suspended until tomorrow morning. the search area will expand as the debris source on the debris floor. tom, what do we suspect from where the debris was found and the shaeddo was seen as to where the fuselage and the rest of the plane might be. they have a good sense of the exact area where this plane is likely resting. they will have to do some analysis of the winds and the ocean currents to back track and figure out okay, if we see
contamina contaminants. reporter: noah says that it hits area such as hawaii. the problem is enforcement. countries need to do a better job of cracking down on pollution. and then there is another issue. the vast ocean waters are just difficult to police. what we ve seen in the last five years is an explosion in awareness. all over the world, people realize we just can t afford the convenience of single use plastics and companies have to take responsibility for what happens to their plastics after it leaves the consumer s hands. what impact will this have on the ocean? the head of the safety and security program at the university of southern california says if it broke up, the debris floor would be massive. you re absolutely right. the wreckage field could be spread over an extremely large distance. reporter: yet as pollution
for example? the maritime surveillance aircraft, they will be looking on top of the surface. why can t they see anything that we can associate with two black b box sn boxes? let s get the submersibles down there to look at the debris floor as well. until we have that cooperated evidence, then we need to be extremely cautious ant where we take this information from china. richard quest, australian prime minister tony throughout this search has been amongst the most optimistic by saying that you know, on one given day the most credible leads yet. on another given day, that this is a positive day of searching. what we have from an australian defense force spokesperson who told cnn that this is a anomaly of interest and is cautioning people about the possibility of a false positive. so i would imagine from those statements very little optimism from the australians.