That's a truly remarkable piece of film. This piece of film will now allow the NTSB to prioritize, a little bit, what they're looking for in terms of the wreckage. |
The French government has been represented by its own officials in the investigation since the second day. The French government has their experts here, they're talking to our people all the time, |
The priority that we give to the recovery of the victims is probably marginally delaying our finding out what happened to cause this catastrophe, |
These people are just wonderful, and I say this in terms of their professionalism and enthusiasm. |
They've located what they believe is part of a third engine, ... Hopefully, the fourth engine will be under what is still a substantial amount of wreckage under (USS) Grasp. |
This doesn't mean the trace elements we found were caused by the training exercise, ... We're just saying it could be the chemical found. |
We don't have any evidence at this point of a bomb or missile, |
We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident, |
We rule out nothing, |
We're getting support from everyone to do it right, so we'll do it properly. |
We're primarily still concerned with recovering bodies, and we hope we find them in that big section of fuselage, but don't everybody think that this is going to happen from today until tomorrow because we still could have a bit of time ahead of us, |
When I see all these assumptions, I get a little twitchy. |
You can draw your own conclusions. |