Trevor Collins

And so that's where you get those three areas.

And I'll go ahead and show you image F and G so you can take a look.

It kind of like breaks up the three areas to focus on like where each part of the plane landed.

So the red section, which is that middle band where the explosion happened.

Yeah.

Go ahead and describe what you're seeing for anybody who can't look at it right now.

I guess that the front breaks off right and it lands yeah that's what yeah so the explosion happens near the red area all that red rains down immediately yeah the front of the plane the nose then dives pretty quickly after that because it's separated yeah and then the green portion continues to fly until it turns over it starts to break apart so that's how you end up with the red zone yellow zone and then green zone that's a good visual but very tragic

Yes, and these visuals come courtesy of the NTSB.

So they're then, of course, now dialing in where they need to be looking, where everything might be, and so they bring in the equipment to extract all this debris.

And I mean extraction.

They're really pulling out all of these pieces, and I'll tell you how much they get out in just a second, but they're finding parts...

Things like engines, which weigh over 9,000 pounds.

They're pulling up shrapnel and seats and anything that might've sunk.

A lot of this stuff obviously floats, but the extraction efforts were reportedly treacherous.

You mentioned the visibility in the water.

That's exactly what the divers were dealing with.

In fact, I don't know what might've caused this because I know that these were trained individuals, but decompression illness, right?

The bends was afflicting many of these divers.

And a lot of these divers also got stuck in the wreckage themselves and the wiring of the plane.

So if you're able to swim down to it, it's like if you open up a plane, it is a rat's nest of normally very organized wiring.