Is Debris News Today

Impacted the water or where they expect the debris to be? >> the release i saw is debris. >> the australian transport safety bureau has examined this advice from the international group and determined that this is the most credible lead to where the debris may be located. >> david gallo, to me that reads is whatever that debris was that they were looking at 680 miles away, they dont really think thats credible anymore. >> yeah. thats right. i guess just from a level of frustration, and again fro...

Australian officials on tonights breaking news, the search area has been shifted. thats the polite way to say it. the old search area weve been following for the past week, thats been abandoned. theyre not searching there anymore. theyve moved about 680 miles to the north because of assessments of flight 370s flight path have been refined in their words. you heard there from australian maritime safety officials. they were asked has it been a waste of time? the response was, it was the informatio...

>> there were a couple of points that come to my mind. first, it looks to me to be closer, a lot closer for the aircraft, so instead of traveling 13, 1400 miles just to get three hours search time, they should get a little more search time. thats how it looks from my initial indication. the second thing is, our oce oceanographers now have to remap the estimate of how the winds and currents and seas may have affected the debris, and reverse engineer wherever we find the debris to the area we thin...

Coordinates on those various pieces of debris, hundreds of pieces of debris, so if they have coordinates of those, i would have assumed they were in the search area that everybody was looking in, and are they now -- this new search area, is this where they believe debris is or where the actual plane may be? i assume its where they believe debris must be, because they wouldnt be able to find the plane under water. >> reporter: they most definitely think thats a credible area for where the debris ...

Basically saying no, its not relevant anymore. what im confused about tonight, amongst other things, the debris -- the new search area, we had assumed before the news conversation that this was the debris field allowing for drift of 20 days. but he said in that press conference that this was the crash point. >> i believe what he said was -- he indicated they were both. which either he misspoke or the only other interpretation is he believes the debris, given the currents hire, which are not as s...

Currents and also -- >> in determining the search area, mr. young will comment further. we have taken account drift information as well as the likely entry point of the aircraft into the water. mr. young, do you want to add? >> thats correct. thats what weve been doing with all of the searches weve conducted so far. this is day 21 for the search for the aircraft. so we have, using our own in-house systems, as well as expert advice from the united states coast guard and commercial companies, drif...

The satellite imagery thats available. im sure they take it from commercial and government sources. and they provide us with the best leads that are available. i think in you want a detailed explanation, you probably need to talk to them. >> the potential debris spotted supports the apparent search area, given that it may have drifted from that area? >> referring to the new area, aircraft have only just arrived on scene today. so well need to wait to see what emerges. in regards to the old areas...

Alleged debris that had been spotted over the last week or so in an area, theyre now searching some -- or moving toward an area some 684 miles away from that. so does that mean that was all wrong? >> you know, i dont know what that means as far as whether it was wrong or right. but what i do know is interpreting the satellite data is not easy to do. people think its on or its not. if that transponder is not on, youre looking at very small pieces of white dots. >> it could be white caps or anythi...

Internationally. >> right. >> david gallo, youve been -- you co-led the air france investigation. is this just the nature of these searches, that theres steps forward and steps back? >> yes, of course, anderson. but not of this magnitude. im still trying to understand they could have shifted the box for debris. for them to have shifted the debris box must mean they knew the relationship between the old impact area and the present -- the old debris area but they didnt find anything. im totally co...

>> to narrow down the search area, what lead do you think is most credible, aside from the debris? this question is for atsb. are you currently looking at other leads from the emerging investigation on radar or satellite data? >> the question about search, mr. young i think should answer it first. >> can i start by saying the two primary methods that weve had so far are these analysis, which are about the movements of the aircraft. and that, in fact, is the best information that we can have. any...