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That any kind of action on his part, whether it was bending of the head a rotation or a flexion or an extension of the head, any of those types of activities would have severed the cord even further. so i think it was a two-step situation. i think the initial injury to the vertebrae happened before he entered the van and the severance of the cord was exacerbated and continued in the van. that would explain, i think, the observations that we ve all made. wow. dr. lawrence kobilinsky thank you for your time. much more of today s breaking news ahead. we re expecting a police briefing just a few minutes away. stay with us. ....
Willing to bet they re probably going to find more. in other words, a more concentrated core of victims. i m still hopeful they re going to find some more. but he s exactly right. that we only have probably several more days before we start seeing some of those victims that are floating before they start descending through the water unfortunately. very uncomfortable topic. unfortunately, that s the reality of what we re looking at at the moment. lawrence, indonesian officials tell cnn, and i want to read it, let s put it up on the screen for folks. according to local wisdom and culture not all families accept autopsies. so for the sake of the investigation, we agree and it is accepted by interpol to perform autopsies on the pilot, co-pilot and ravnddomly selected passengers. how would that impact what happened here? is random selection going to leader investigators to a clear conclusion of what happened here? i think really to do this the ....
Autopsies would be required despite cultural concerns. all right. victor if i can join in a second, yeah, it s important to understand why it s important to have an autopsy of the crew members. something we really haven t talked about yet. very briefly, the reason why that is so important is, one we need to determine the time of death to those individuals. if something happened prior, if they were incapacitated prior to impact. but also who was flying the airplane. we can tell from a forensic standpoint who had hands on controls, what they were touching, what they were doing. it s very helpful to have that forensic profile. and of course, we re hearing so many great things about this pilot and young co-pilot. but you also have to get back the toxicology reports to eliminate all of those possibilities as well. shawn and lawrence, thank you both. pleasure. thanks. we have to talk about the flu activity this year, because it is already hitting peak ....
The sea may sink to the bottom of the sea. thank you, paula. it s a gruesome reality. but as we just discussed, the remains of the passenger and crew, they may also hold clues as to what happened on 8501. joining me now for more, lawrence kobilinsky, a scientist in the criminal justice in new york. and we have an air safety expert and flight investigator. first to you, lawrence, we all know this is a delicate topic. so taking into consideration the sensitivity of the day part. we re in mourning now. what could the conditions of these bodies tell us about what happened, lawrence? well, i think one of the things, besides identifying each of the 162 people on board has to do with determining cause of ....
Ms. snow lost her fiance on twa flight in 1986 and has been working to provide comfort to others in the same situation. dr. kobilinsky, without getting into too much graphic detail, knowing the time frame and the fact that three bodies apparently have been found intact, i m told two women and a man, will identification be difficult? i don t think it will be as difficult as it would otherwise be in different kinds of crashes. i think once they have a body, they can determine a gender, age, ethnicity. there will be medical and dental records. they may have tattoos or scars. but ultimately, it will come down to fingerprints or more likely even than that is dna analysis. and in order to do that, what they need are close biological ....