also new this morning, french investigators telling cnn authorities will be able to i.d. the object quickly, even more chilling, a source telling cnn engineers should be able to determine if the plane exploded in the air or if it hit the water in one piece. we re covering this story from all angles. cnn s senior international correspondent is on reunion island. i m also joined by cnn aviation correspondent richard quest. he s been following all of this since the very beginning, but set the scene for us first. reporter: well, our teams on the ground witnessed it being loaded into the crate, and you got a sense of the delicacy of this operation purely from seeing the way it was wrapped, the surrounding escort, a large number of police around that crate at all times while it was sealed up. the wing segment itself was wrapped very, very carefully