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Urgency to trying to pinpoint, locate and pick those up. but, again, they stress, the last time that they found some of these objects, chinese vessel picked them up, turned out to be ocean trash. so this time, theyre again looking for these objects, saying that, you know, the color could indicate that theyre from the plane. again, theyre not sure. a lot of this back and forth. investigators say this is very, very difficult, obviously, trying to comb so much of this very vast and deep ocean. but ...

Involvement in the decision to change the course so radically. >> lets assume the passengers were not aware that anything was wrong. and as many of them fall asleep on the way to beijing. they are about to land at 6:15 in the morning and they are not landing. they look out the window and are still over an ocean. you wonder if they were getting concerned about the plane going on and on over the ocean. we know that the last transmission from the plane was at about 8:15 or 8:19 in the morning. we d...

That means the ocean is going to get rougher. they had one good day of searching. it will get bad for the next days. >> winter is coming in the southern hemisphere. what do we have in terms of the ability of us to get to the black box? is it american assets? whose assets can find the little box in orange there to the right? >> the americans have great expertise with dropping these submersible robots, if you will, to kind of do a lawn mower action along the bottom of the ocean. we also have this ...

It. the other issue is the debris. if you find the plane debris on the surface and we have reports of debris but we dont know if it is connected at all to this case. if you do find the debris you can probably get some sense of how the currents may have taken the debris from where the plane actually went down. >> let me ask you a primitive question. why dont they make the black box floatable? these planes go down. that is why we are looking for the black box. they go down in the water. if they we...

Of finding black boxes or orange boxes in this case in situations of the deep ocean where you are talking two or three miles deep? >> you look at the air france case which is the closest analogue to this one. it took them two years to find it. it was incredibly challenging search. but in that case unlike this one they did have something to go on. first of all, the air france plane was transmitting some signals through the automatic system when it was in distress and when it was going down. this ...

Latitude and longitude, 90 by 44. this area in here is called the roaring 40s. why? 44 degrees as i mentioned on the latitude. and it is incredibly turbulent and feeds into the southern ocean which circles the entire globe. it is entirely possible, say the experts, that something can flow through this and get caught up in the current and go around and around and around the globe and never hit land. if it hit any land maybe peru. so we are in this situation where we talk about the -- we are losin...

And expert told the "washington post" this is really uncharterered territory. usually have plenty of data to work with, black boxes, voice recorders. he joins us now. aviation expert pilot and attorney. joel, thanks for joining us. i love people that can learn things quickly and put them together in simple basic understandable english. all hopes lie with the black box. is it a reasonable bet that a needle in a haystack is nothing compared to the indian ocean. the ocean is turbulent. the waves ar...

Seven hours were like where everybody was dead or whether there was life activity or human involvement in the decision to change the course so radekicalr >> lets assume the passengers were not aware that anything was wrong. and as many of them fall asleep on the way to beijing. they are about to land at 6:15 in the morning and they are not landing. they look out the window and are still over an ocean. you wonder if they were getting concerned about the plane going on and on over the ocean. we kn...

Of finding black boxes or orange boxes in this case in situations of the deep ocean where you are talking two or three miles deep? >> you look at the air france case which is the closest analogue to this one. it took them two years to find it. it was incredibly challenging search. but in that case unlike this one they did have something to go on. first of all, the air france plane was transmitting some signals through the automatic system when it was in distress and when it was going down. this ...

The different thermal layers in the ocean. they have cold layers and different layers in the ocean. this is a huge challenge and they make the point, if we are talking about the size of denver you cant run a pinger locater over the entire metropolitan depths of denver. talk about a needle in the hay stack they dont have the hay stack yet. and then the same thing with the submersibles. they need to isolate the area they need to focus on and then bring in the submersibles and the pinger locater. >...