Page 21 - Greg Feith News Today

you have to get the facts right if youre going to ask me a question. i made the joke on december 2, not on -- not after -- excuse me, excuse me. not after pat foys testimony. [ inaudible ] >> again, christine, im not going to answer a question whose premise is absolutely -- well, i understand, its nice that you eventually got to the question. but the premise of the question is so infirm that im not going to answer it. >> what do you think of the depiction of the -- not only did it desc...

Greg feith, which is, basically, does the size or the reported size of the debris that was spotted by the satellite make sense in terms of this type of aircraft? >> gene, there is one piece, that piece 78, 79 feet long, that could be part of this airplane. when you consider that the wing span on the airplane is almost 200 feet that would be a little over, you know, about a hundred foot per wing and the tail section is about 60, 65 feet. that piece that is 79 feet long could be either a wing pane...

Everybody wants to know what happened here because we are left with a sense of unease around the world. >> we have to damp down expectations that we will learn something in a feud or half a week or something like that. >> with us from denver is former senior air safety of the national transportation safety board greg feith is back with us. greg, we are focused like a laser on these two pieces of debris. are our hearts going to be broken when we get to them? >> im not very optimistic. normally --...

They have an ultrasonic pulse or pinging and the pulse is picked up by sonar or other listening devices on ships passing over and even as far away as 5 to 10 miles but the batteries stand out to run out in 18 days or a little longer so time is critical. aviation expert bill waldon. >> its absolutely essential that we find the flight recorders. the information they are going to have on them is probably the only way that were ultimately going to be able to really solve this mystery. >> so its real...

Discounted. this one just giving us that one dimension and its that 79-foot dimension. >> greg, really quick, halpern. >> australian government setting a great example for the malaysian government. >> i agree. >> clear leadership in a time of international crisis, so important. >> what a complete failure on so many levels on the part of the malaysian government. its probably impacted our ability to find this plane. >> still giving out information about the satellite. >> i know. four day old pict...

places on earth. we have got it covered on multiple fronts this morning, with live reporting from malaysia, australia, and our experts from around the country. plus, russia is massing troops along its western borders as pro-russian forces take whatever they want in crimea including ukrainian ships and sanctions flying both ways. russia is borrowing members of congress from entering the country and president obama is moving into the second phase of his squeeze on putin. where does thi...

best a four-hour flight each way, leaving only about two-hours of actual search time. these crews are under the gun to comb an area that habaneroed but is still the size of italy. even the cautiously optimistic australians say its like finding a need until a haystack. >> its an extremely remote part of the southern indian ocean, its about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth. if there is anything down there, we will find it. >> that assessment is u...

eyebrows, and turned up the chatter that actually does really matter. good morning from washington. its friday, march 21st, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." day two of spring, right? feels pretty good out there. we begin with the latest developments on the intense search for any sign of that missing malaysian jetliner that was carrying 239 passengers and crew. its now been almost two weeks since the plane disappeared, and with darkness falling in that part of the world over the ind...

Questions. captain john cox and greg feith, pleasure, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> as we reported before, the norwegian merchant ship was asked directly by australian authorities to help the search because they were nearby at the time. they were the first vessel to reach this area. we spoke exclusively with the ships spokesman earlier today to get more details on what exactly their role is. >> 8,000 cars on board and not made for such rescue but it has radar and capacity and something tha...

And then i think the weather will deteriorate for the tail end of the weekend. todd? >> of cowurse, the weekend is when more ships will show up. veronica, thank you. greg feith is a former investigator with the ntsb. greg joins me now from colorado. greg, all right, so the scenario, this is where your former colleagues at ntsb said the best -- their best guess of where the search should begin, and voila, the first satellite appears, and what does this tell us? >> it tells us we should be cauti...