experts to help answer them. rob mccallum and steve ross is back with us. rob, let s go ahead and start with you. sammy writes in and says where is the debris. why don t they see any pieces of that plane? you know, it could be for a couple of reasons. the first is that there may not be a lot of debris. the aircraft might not have broken up in a big way on the surface. there might not have been a lot of debris generated. it s a very, very big ocean out there. and you know, it was several days after the accident that searchers first got to this area. it could simply have drifted away. steve, here s one for you. actually i have another question and follow up. now that the probably crash area is found,
having dealt with air france 447. why is it so difficult this one? oh, the answer is, piers, it s just such a big ocean out there. and the sensors that we have to use are so limited in range. it takes a long time to deploy them to the bottom both of the ocean and drag them along in the tracks. we have logistics problems. they get snarled up with things the sea state gets too high, we can t deploy them because the waves are too long. it s a very unfriendly site for search operations. can we assume at the very least no plane will disappear again like this? do you share his optimistic that this is likely to not happen again? nothing happens that quickly in aviation. there s some good reasons for that. you don t want to buy the necessarily bleeding edge technology if it isn t proven, because after all lives are at stake here. however, in this case the
having dealt with air france 447. why is it so difficult this one? oh, the answer is, piers, it s just such a big ocean out there. and the sensors that we have to use are so limited in range. it takes a long time to deploy them to the bottom both of the ocean and drag them along in the tracks. we have logistics problems. they get snarled up with things the sea state gets too high, we can t deploy them ball tecause waves are too long. it s a very unfriendly site for search operations. can we assume at the very least no plane will disappear again like this? do you share his optimistic that this is likely to not happen again? nothing happens that quickly in aviation. there s some good reasons for that. you don t want to buy the necessarily bleeding edge technology if it isn t proven, because after all lives are at stake here. however, in this case the technology is there. it s just a matter of really in
where the chinese satellite images were taken. sit possible for, we re talking about human beings, look out of an airplane window, trying to spot a piece of debris, is it possible they flew over this and didn t see it? oh, yeah, that could be. yeah. but they re well-trained in spotting anything. any passenger who has flown across the oceans, though, when you look out the window of the plane, it s a big ocean out there. very hard to see these things. they stress using eyeballs in this case because in the first couple of days with the radar looking down, they didn t find anything. now they said, we have to have people looking through the binoculars otherwise we re not going to find it. as bill says now, if they have surface fog and so forth, lit make it tough. now it s night. we won t hear anything more until tomorrow morning our time. that will be when the planes come back from tomorrow s run. and the runs that they re going out on tonight. though we do expect we may get some inform
might be looking for a needle in a haystack. you see the redboxes on the graphic. in 35 minutes we ll show awe bit more. it is a large plane but it s a big ocean out there. we talked about how shallow it is relatively speaking, 300 feet maximum depth rather in the gulf of thailand there is also an area of land that is still a possibility as well. that is deep, deep jungle we ll look at. martha: now they have to look over the land as well. open remote areas where the plane could have gone down. we ll have remote coverage as the search continues. fox news alert for you. last minute push for obamacare enroll deadline. march 31 is the last day you can sign up to avoid the penalty. the obama administration is unleashing planned parenthood to help out in the mad scramble to help out before then. they are holding enrollment drives in 18 cities across eight states. a total of 500 different