rich area. without that it s going to be slow going. will it disburse any of the wreckage or maybe damage it in a way that hinders to be able to figure out what happened? sure. it s going to disburse the lighter weight material. it s going to spread it out. some of the bodies may also be disbursed. it s going to make that part of the investigation challenging. but the critical evidence is still in one place and hopefully will be found soon. david sousi, one of the things we ve been talking about, a theory you had, was this thought that perhaps pitthe pilot actually made a water landing, that he was able to land on the surface of the sea but then the plane sank. do you think that s possible? it s certainly possible. the evidence that we had that was pointing in that direction earlier was that the the over-the-wing exit door was found, the slide below that door was found, the gauge that
here, because i know you had some concerns about the readings on this and you wanted more information before drawing conclusions. certainly, and i m sure it is reliable information, but here is my point about a potential attempt to ditch the aircraft. what was interesting to me is the fact that the first set of evidence that we got was the emergency exit door for over the wing. the second thing we got was the slide itself which deploys right under that wing. the third piece of information we got was the tank that inflates that wing and then the fourth was the bodies that were located in that same area. now we have another piece of evidence that to me looks like the outside door that deploys when the slide comes out as well. remember there is no other evidence of debris at all in this area. there hasn t been anything other than the interior window piece that we looked at as well. so there is no other debris
that was found, a compressed air cylinder. what does this tell us? and if i can draw attention to this that s a crack right there that we re seeing in this metal. so what does this tell us? this is the cylinder most likely attached to the escape raft and escape slide that was torn loose. and this just shows the tremendous impact force, again, of the plane. but it does not show compression damage. it s relatively intact. this might have been thrown loose early in the process. and you think along with the raft. you think it might have been by that slide? i think so. is it just that this is buoyant or yes. so it s not necessarily surprising that it would have? right. so this one s a little mysterious. what is this? can we tell? this looks to be a piece of the aircraft. is it flooring is it a wall
found. and sadly, the bodies that we have found, that we have seen a door, we ve seen an escape slide. we ve seen a flight attendant, we re told. those things normally go together. we ve seen one or two bodies that have sadly ended up with clothing removed, which normally means that have fell some distance through the sky. i m just wondering if what we re finding right now is an isolated event. and complete speculation on my part. but seems like there s a pattern there. there s an awful lot missing here. david? to me, there isn t much missing. like you said, david, these things go together. the door, the emergency exit door is very clear about how it s removed. it doesn t just go to the outside. it s bigger than the hole. it can t go outside that window unless it s removed and thrown out the window. that s the only way i can see, other than an in-flight break-up
and the tank that was with it. now, all of those things are contained. in fact the bag itself all those things are contained in the baggage compartment. and that aft baggage compartment door would have come off. the escape slide would have come out as well. and this bag is actually a flyaway kit which is used in case the aircraft has to land somewhere where there s no maintenance. it includes things like lightbulbs, oil, things like that. it s not a bag from the passengers. it s a bag that s part of the equipment on the aircraft. so i m kind of hesitant right now to make the assumption that the aircraft broke up in-flight to the extent where it couldn t fly. at this point, all i know is the door came off and some things came out of that aft baggage compartment. there s that concern. and then also as we don t have the black boxes at this point. that s what the search continues to be. but we re able to pick up some