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The difficult thing is once it impacts, when they use the word obliterated, thats probably the best description you could come up with. but it also goes backwards away from the impact point. so youre having to figure out what went forward and what went backward from that accident point to gather information. the fact they have the flight data recorder is extremely useful, but the limits of the flight data recorder is it will tell you what happened. it wont tell you why necessarily. thats why we ...

Let me get to the next slide -- okay now, the navigate aspect of this doesnt seem to have changed. the flight path was going from from -- lets come back off here. >> i think its being a little temperamental. >> the interesting bit about this thomas at 48 miles before the impact point, the aircraft doesnt seem to have changed direction. we go to the mantra aviate navigate, communicate. the navigate bit, this point here the aircraft should have been looking forge a suitable diversion to land at an...

That could limit the amount of assets used for wreckage. that will be key getting as many aircraft in the air because they can cover a larger area, see the floating debris from up above over a larger area than the surface ships. they may find one piece of it. the weather will dictate how successful we are using aerial assets. once with they find it we have to concern ourselves with what direction did it come from, trying to backtrack where it originated. that should be the largest impact point. ...

Where it breaks apart, those pieces are far from the impact zone. so what my concern was at first was that we might be jumping to a conclusion and as an accident investigator, thats the hardest thing not to do, is to jump to the most obvious conclusion, and the most coincidental conclusion. so when you look at this video, though, youll miss things that are in front of your face. and by looking at this video, not the one showing now, but the one prior when we showed the actual impact point, you c...

David, we havent talked to you thus far. what are your thoughts on the information thats come out so far? >> well, anderson, in every investigation ive ever run, most difficult thick thing is not to jump to the most common and accepted answer right away. there are other things. if you to that, you miss whats right in front of your face. and if you look at that video, the first thing you see is the impact and the explosion. if this were a missile, do you think the aircraft would have come down wi...

Second we thought we might have heard sets of pings. we heard the ping from the voice -- cockpit voice recorder. this leads me to my next question. here we are five weeks out. still despite all of the reports of possible pings, no debris has been found yet. is it possible -- does that give this whole theory of the plane being underwater more or less in tact more -- could that really be the situation? >> you know, im leaning more and more that way because of the fact that before, at first we were...

Positive thing, because weve got, you know, the possibility -- i mean, the shot in the dark with that ship that is in port right now. >> michael kay? >> i think just again, we need to be best utilizing our assets to try and work out whether were looking for the haystack or whether were looking for the needle. there is effectively two independent searches going on. were talking about, what rosa was talking about, what happens beyond the assumption of where the impact point was and how the current...

Were looking for the haystack or whether were looking for the needle. there is effectively two independent searches going on. were talk whack rosa was talking about what happens beyond the assumption of where the impact point was and how the currents might affect that. what i would like to go back and interrogatory the assumptions where the impact point was. what i mean by that, how far its traveled there are three to five assumptions that were using. were using speed, altitude, were using endur...

Trash. >> tom, weve got assets in the area. we meaning the world is searching for anything that pertains to this plane. youve got the australian ship heading to the area with u.s. pinger on board to arrive in that search area by thursday with less than a week to go before the battery is expected to go out in the pinger of that flight data recorder. is it your feeling that its smart to have those assets in the vicinity necessarily, if not an cater, they might know where this impact point is? >> i...

Its best use here? >> i think the hope is rapidly fading the pinger will be affected. after all youve got to, as one of the naval people said, youve got to find the impact point. debris is the starting point, the endpoint. the key part is to find impact. its only there where youll have any chance at all of finding crucial information. >> captain darby, help us understand how this technology would work. you were describing to me youre talking about technology that can detect this pinger if its 20...