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Tracking the debris back with current modelling and searching the bottom of the ocean without narrowing the flight pattern down, it could be lot of forever. >> wie mentioned the search area about 100,000 square miles. we talked to the producer and we said if this search area were 10,000 square miles with everything perfect and weather conditions and technology equipment all a-ok, how long would that search take? >> i have exact experience with a blue fin 12 inch vehicle that we launched for thre...

Few hours ago. over the last few days it has been pretty challenging environmental conditions there. the area has been overcast, a little fog rolling in, a little bit of high seas. but the important thing to realize is that these planes and we have two search-and-rescue patrol planes flying they are all weather capable. they are built for this. and no matter the weather, they can resume their searching whether through radar, infrared, optical camera or visual search not just based on l. they are...

Transponder off. we probably wont know who did that until we are able to retrieve the black box, if we ever are able to retrieve it. we know that after the transponder went off the plane flew for several hours. some of that was not totally in a normal flight pattern but it was not the type of erratic flying that would be associated normally with somebody who was committing an act of terrorism. so there are a number of things that theyre still analyzing. but there is nothing that points to terror...

Transponder off. we probably wont know who did that until we are able to retrieve the black box, if we ever are able to retrieve it. we know that after the transponder went off the plane flew for several hours. some of that was not totally in a normal flight pattern but it was not the type of erratic flying that would be associated normally with somebody who was committing an act of terrorism. so there are a number of things that theyre still analyzing. but there is nothing that points to terror...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesnt have experience with this sort of thing, that the...

Western coast of australia. this data given a the flight pattern as they understood it. it turns fuel and how far it could fly. after assessed, 36 hours later, the pentagon issued a new search mast released yesterday showed a search area had been refocused if you will in that western section, southern indian ocean 1500 nautical miles off the coast. it also included what is described as a drift area about 7 to 8 days after the jet disappeared from all signals intelligence. so that is number one. ...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesnt have experience with this sort of thing, that the...

Practice? its not uncommon for an airline pilot to practice with a flight simulator. but if hes deleting data, perhaps about landing on an aircraft -- excuse me, landing on an airstrip in the maldeafs somewhere, thats something were going to want to know about. >> there are over 600 airstrips in the region where he might have been able to land a plane that size. now lets go to something else. if i am making a huge left turn that is not on my flight pattern, that has been okd, like this plane did...

Uninformed? bad relationship with malaysia? >> thats a question for right at the top of the food chain. >> and not for you? >> not for me. >> mulleve. news web site there quoting islanders on a remote -- according to the report. it says they saw a low flying jet on the morning of march 8th about 6:15 local time. this would seem to dove tail with the flight pattern of the jet. and they also indicated that it was not only low flying but there were also markings on the jets they say are consistent ...

Uninformed? bad relationship with malaysia? >> thats a question for right at the top of the food chain. >> and not for you? >> not for me. >> mulleve. news web site there quoting islanders on a remote -- according to the report. it says they saw a low flying jet on the morning of march 8th about 6:15 local time. this would seem to dove tail with the flight pattern of the jet. and they also indicated that it was not only low flying but there were also markings on the jets they say are consistent ...