ocean and took a matter of years to get to the wreckage site itself. even though they found wreckage floating a few days after the event. so the black boxes, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are so long as they survived and they should, they are designed to do that are going to tell the story. and so i think, as clive points out, as long as it gets in the right hands at the right time we should be able to unravel this one fairly quickly. you put stock in that miles, this shadow of the plane that may have been observed from the air? i ve heard some people say, you know what, i do put stock in that. other people say that could be anything, an old ship that was sunk at some point. well it s hard to say. i haven t seen any images to try to corroborate that myself with my own eyes. i can tell you this i ve been scuba diving myself recently and 100-plus visibility is possible with the right conditions. so it s quite possible that
evidence of the root cause of the accident that is when you stop adding layers. so in this case it was necessary to build the entire aircraft back. and peter can tell us more about that. how that happened was that there simply were not answers until they saw the entire impact. there was a lot of questions about whether there was a missile from the outside in or inside out. those were agsed but it took a lot of assembly work. painstakingly, you can see how much work it did take to put that together. richard, we ve heard from airasia ceo tony fernandes. he said the airline isn t sweeping changes at this point. he said he s open to making changes in the future. what does that indicate? should there be some sort of precautions that this airline or other airlines that use the a-320 should be taking right now? no. not really. because we don t know what the cause was. i mean arguably it looks like the weather was a major
come out in the next 24 hours. what he was saying was we found this debris and then found this shadow of a plane. it s perhaps unlikely that the plane is fully in tact. planes falling out of the air tend to breakup with the impact of the water. what he s talking about is a large section of fuselage. perhaps also still connected to wing we ll wait and find out. we will know that within the next 24 to 48 hours. what do you think about the shadow peter? well i think the wreckage would have drifted at some point from where the impacts are. i find it a little questionable but, as richard said there will be somebody in the water tomorrow and we ll find out. it s only 100-plus feet deep. they can get down and get a
if it did break up mid air, you could expect to see more along the lines, as i mentioned, of mh 17. we ve seen so little at this point. peter, he brings up air franls 447. the black boxes were so key in that flight. and this happened so many times when these recorders are recovered. they completely change the perception of wham. they reveal the truth. so in this case as we are very hopeful that the black boxes will be recovered. where did they go? what nation will take over the analysis of the data and voice recorders? there is only a few countries that have the computer capabilities and the experience to download the boxes. you don t want to mess it up and damage the material. my guess is either the french or the australians will be the countries of choice.
they tried to face whatever they were faced with, that will tell a lot about the data, the altitude direction speed, all of those kinds of things. or whether the system was coming off or coming apart. when they determine what was being said by them at the time of the crisis. that will tell a lot. twa flight 800, investigators pain stakenly put together they put back together the plane. collecting these pieces from the ocean floor, trying to reconstruct and see what happened. this was somewhat helpful. do you think that this is what we re going to see happen with 8501? well, it is much like the opposite of taking every layer of an onion off in an accident investigation. you re building it every layer from the inside out. so at the point that you find conclusively that there is