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Plane would have floated up to the surface. what kinds of things would have been released and floated like that? >> the cushions. this is speculation obviously. you have suitcases, you have cushion, small items, parts of the air frame that are going to be lighter or buoyant. if it breaks up and it would not break up very deep, start to break up relatively early in the descent to the bottom, those things will float back up. its really hard to imagine you would have no debris field. these are unch...

Astounded to read your company may have actually made the pinger that could be in the black boxes were searching for right now, is that correct? >> well, ashleigh, we make the pinger. we dont know which pingers are on which air frame. we sell them through a distributor o. is so it could be us, it could be another manufacturer in the u.s. >> were talking about how the time is really running out. i dont need to go any further but that the battery issue with you. i want you to show me the one we ma...

It means to a search party looking for it, it makes all the difference in the world. >> let me ask you this, do you think its time to rethink the concept of the black box? maybe during the flight, transmit via satellite or radio transition just the basic information about the flight and to store it somewhere on land. >> i think it definitely should happen. i think the challenge, who does it, who pays for it and where is all that data stored? the world would have to get together and come up with ...

Recorder. you can understand the clicks and hums in the flight. changes are coming to the black boxes. next year, there has to be a battery life on the pinger to extend from 30 days to 90 day d. in this case, the searchers would have two months to find the black boxes. and the faa is requiring a stronger beacon to ping at a longer distance to find. one will be attached to the air frame to help find the actual debris. there has been a proposal with the cockpit voice recorder to extend the recordi...

Has the information that could be key to solving what happened. >> so kit tell you where it went into the water but youre implying due to time, currents, everything else it wouldnt thereabout but give you a point it started here and now the debris field would be somewhere out from there? >> reporter: well the debris field does not have the black boxes. the black boxes are still attached to the aircraft itself. it would have gone down in the water, but because of the depth it would have drifted w...

Carried as many passengers as flight 370, but there was one disappearance in 2003, in angola, at the countrys largest airport there was a boeing 727 that had been parked for month, racking up $4 million in airport fees, which is four times the amount they paid for it after it was pushed out of circulation. one person, ben charles padilla, who was a certified air frame and power plant mechanic who was called a gifted mechanic and was able to fly small planes. also a father of two. minutes before ...

>> over 630 different potential landing sites that were established in this search radius because of the size of the 777 it would need 7,000 to land and an experienced pilot could do it less than that, about 5,000 feet but if it was landing be used for takeoff it needs that longer length. >> when you look at the hijacking theory there seems no reason why a hijacker would turn off the transponder and all sorts of abilities to track the plane and then just ditch it where no one can see. >> unless ...

Need our focus. >> i have a question from jim sciutto for you. >> commander marks, the p-8 is a new air frame down there with remarkable surveillance capabilities. can you describe how that works in searching a size as large as the indian ocean? >> sure. the p-8 is the very latest in our technology. its a significant upgrade over the p-8 and its the most advanced type of the plane in the world right now. its 20% faster and can fly at 500 knots compared to 420 for the p-3. it gives you more searc...

The plane but you did not immediately destroy the air frame, those -- it could progress over a few minutes in a time where you would lose both of those depending on what was happening in the belly -- >> are you suggesting the plane could have been in auto pilot with everybody on board dead? wow, does anybody else believe it was a possibility? >> possibility. >> there was an air-worthiness that came out on the triple 7 recently, there is no way that asia air could comply with it. it warned of cor...

That. were about to go so slow were going to fall out of the air. hes on the razors edge of either toppling over the top too fast or too slow were going to collapse down to the ground. let me show you what happens if you go over the top now and decide to descend at that rate. which you couldnt do, 40,000 feet, mitchell, push us over the top. >> lets do it. >> reporter: what youre going to find out theres going to be a tremendous g force that starts to build up. the alarms, the sink rate. whats t...