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The objects are indistinct but of "reasonable size" -- the largest about 24 meters long (79 feet), said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. They were "probably awash with water and bobbing up and down," he said.
"If that piece of the plane is that big, maybe it's the tail section" said David Gallo, who co-led the search for Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. But he warned that the size gave him a degree of concern.
"It's a big piece of aircraft to have survived something like this," he said.
The tail height of a Boeing 777, the model of the missing Malaysian plane, is 60 feet.
I guess this is super premature, but I mean what is the internet good for if not completely irresponsible speculation.
So, on with the completely irresponsible speculation: assuming the plane like nose-dived and hit the water at a high speed, doesn't the thing explode into a bunch of smaller parts and ****?
So I think what's being communicated here is that the descent would have to have been pretty controlled to get a big ass piece of the plane still in tact.