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Bigger or heavier because that means its going to cost you over the long run. so its actually not the ideal frequency for under water. heres a little piece of irony. the p-3s and p-8s that are searching for this particular aircraft are outfitted with black boxes that float. >> huh. >> why not? why not have a -- you can have a redundant set of devices that stay on the surface and then you can broadcast on an emergency frequency and you could find a site much easier than trying to, you know, get s...

Further north and east. further south, its much more with more frequent storms, higher sea heights. now were watching as this next weather system approaches across the search area which essenti essentially has been described the size of the country of poland. so really they are kind of looking all across this very broad area, very difficult. not every square inch or square kilometer across the search area is going to see bad weather. certainly enough it will hamper flights going out from the p 3...

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 ...

Miles, you heard the commander theyre sending in a second p 8 aircraft. do you believe there are enough assets on the ground, on the water, in the air, given how large the search area is? >> no. no. given the size of the search area, the current weather and expected weather -- fall into winter -- i dont think theres nearly enough assets there. theres another 10 or 11 p 8s in the u.s. fleet. theres 120 p 3s. why not send an aircraft carrier down there? the george washington is sitting in japan ri...

Bonus, p-8, p-3s a lot longer to search. that is the bonus about this. its stella huge area to search, though. as well see its got to involve the human eye. it involves all technology and also involves the weather as well. >> youre final flag shows us what? >> this is the key information i still dont think we have, gretchen. when that transponder ping went off we dont know, a confliction of evidence what happened that aircraft to the last transponder ping to the south. did it go across malacca s...

Centimeters per pixel. however, it is not the silver bullets, there are limitations to the technology, it takes a 2d picture, not a 3-d picture, so youre only getting a sort of an over view of what youre seeing. an iceberg, we can see the tip, we know there is a lot more underneath the surface, but the weather is a nightmare for satellites. if you have any form of cloud cover, we know the weather has been inclement. we must not forget were still looking for the hay stack, even if you have a high...

Work out where it would have been. >> miles, a final word to you. do you think well find the body of this jet? again, given the floor here is volcanoes and huge mountain ranges that havent been mapped. >> heres my concern, i dont think there are enough assets on station, as it were. five ships and 11 aircraft. i dont understand why wire were not sending an aircraft carrier in there to enhance the effort here or for that matter additional p8s and p3s. it seems to me the window is very narrow and ...

Pilots. >> well, if you think about the satellite imagery thats coming in to the pilots, its generally a guide for where they can look but the waves and the wind currents of the ocean can move debris several miles -- dozens of miles before planes can actually get there. so when you think about how these planes execute these search areas, theyre given a general grid, so a box in which they have to search in. so if you think about it like mowing your lawn, you have your yard and you have to go bac...

It 3,500 meters deep, 2,500 kilometers from perth. eig its a massive logistic exercise. there are four australian p-3s, a p-8 from the united states, two illusions from china, theres a p-3 coming from korea with a c-130h this afternoon. i want to thaake the opportunit to thank all of those countries for their assistant. i had lunch with the teams and theyre keeping their aircrafts flying and keeping their teams up to the minute enthusiasm. "hms success" has had to deployed to the west to avoid

Rare on this aircraft. this is the most reliable aircraft in the skies right now. >> jim, you held a high jock at the ntsb. you were former chairman, where would you now take this investigation to try to get some kind of resolution. >> the international aviation organization they need to equip these aircraft. theyve been sitting on that recommendation for five years. if this aircraft had been equipped with a deployable recorder like the f-18 aircraft we have in the united states, like the p3s th...