Extraicate Debris News Today

Instructor there. welcome back. let me begin. you have recreated this suspected path of this flight. what did you glean from that? >> right now as a matter of fact in the virtual world, we are about almost in the area where the debris was believed to be. 1400 miles south of australia. you want to peer out the window and look down as if you can help, but it wouldnt. lets talk about the auto pilot. we are on auto pilot. if you were to disengage it here, let me hear that alarm. there is an alarm th...

Conversation. jump in. heres the 50 question to you. beyond the weather, what are the other difficulties and the other challenges searching. the latest numbers we have, 20 ships. 35 aircraft. all will be helping in this area to try to figure out what the heck that stuff is. >> the debro was found north of the strongest currents which flow from west to east. where the debris is, you can be a current of maybe about a half mile an hour and 12 hours. 24 hours, you move 12 miles towards the east. how...

Beneath? talk about the masses that vary so much between 15,000 feet and topography on the bottom of the ocean. would they be pushing under water and looking underneath? >> that would be what they are going to have to do. its the debris i believe that dropped very close to the mid-ocean ridge. the average depth might be 2,000 to 2500 meters. the sea floor is very rough there. mountains and valleys. the debro from the plane would have broken up and be scattered in different places in the hills an...

That one was ended up the airplane was not damaged at all. you could have another situation where the same scenario where the pilots are under control and it does break up into pieces. another one, less likely from the standpoint that it could glide into the water without any control by the pilot. the third one was where you would run out of fuel and the aircraft would probably just nose over and into the water in a vertical status where the airplane would -- one guess would be that the airplane...

The next thing you would do and this is what he does for a living. he puts equipment into the ocean, sonar equipment. he does hes highly specialized searches. it would take approximately 45 days to do a very detailed search of a particular area. assuming you came up with something, you would put in secondary equipment. this would be rov equipment with cameras and the ability to extraicate debris. that would take another 45 days. we are looking at 90 days just to do this search. we dont even know...

Images of the two pieces of debris is a couple days old. they have to find it and trace it back. dan simon, thank you for that explanation. coming up next, we are taking you about 1500 miles off the coast of australia where the spotlight is today. thats where the possible debris is located. we will give you a virtual view of the area and take a closer look at the challenges the search crews will be facing and remember this? we talked about this last week. the website we have beeni tellig you abo...

>> right. we were dealing with a massive search area here to north and the south. the ntsb and faa compiled all of the relevant data. they considered water movement and radar that showed the path of the plane and assumed the planes speed. from all that was, they derived a possible search area in the southern part of the indian ocean. now today we have the satellite images which you are looking at. it shows images of possible debris from that plane. authorities say what makes these images so cred...

Pilots were incapacitated. the plane is not getting a response. it will go lower and lower and lower. we are now 160 feet, 150 feet. this would all be happening. the problem at this point is that the plane is not going to land itself automatically in the water. he is able to hold it because he is flying it manually, but no auto pilot will take it down gently evenly on to the surface of this water. we know about the miracle on the hudson. that was a miracle for a reason. this plane would not do t...

Them and see them and assess them to know whether its meaningful or not. >> caution in every word there, but the bottom line, flight 370 could be resting 1500 miles off the coast of australia in the unforgiving waters of the southern indian ocean. of course until they find these objects, whatever this is, we cant be sure about this. but lets stick with what we are sure of. one of the objects is huge. this here about 24 meters long or 79 feet long. the other is similar. five meters and 16 feet. t...

Lets take that and go to martin savage with the flight instructor mitchell casado. you two have programmed the cockpit to fly over the indian ocean near this site of possible debris. could the plane have made it that far? >> that was the first test we did. we wanted to load the plane with the fuel they think they had. about seven hours worth and point it south. we showed earlier that this plane -- there is a lot of things we dont know, but this plane could easily have made it and had time to spa...