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Surface. >> just to be precise, so far, as far as you know, and you know what is going on, air commodore, you have not found any, not even a tiny piece of debris from that malaysian airliner. is that right? >> weve found lots of debris but at this stage, none of the debris that we have found has been able to be linked to the missing malaysian aircraft, unfortunately. well continue that search today. the crews are motivated. the equipment is world class and were very, very focused. >> is there an...

Effort. so thats still a long way here, so to speak. >> and you say the air search is about the size of the state of west virginia. is that what youre saying? >> every day the several area that they search is about the size of west virginia. so its a sizeable search area and that search area continues to either be refined, due to the ocean currents or the movement of that search and the potential debris field or as youve alluded to, the more information that we get, we can refine and go to the v...

Terms of the debris and the potential wreckage, its likely that they will be in different areas. so well go out, well put our crews and aircraft out in the debris area to focus on that surface, search for the debris. but its still a long, challenging search. the search authorities are doing everything that they can to gather all of the credible evidence to try and join those dots. so to date from all of the crews, all of the nations involved and ill be going out again today and continuing that g...

There will be things that float, and things will eventually wash up on a shore somewhere. but given the amount of time and the weather patterns that have moved through there, i think the odds of finding any type of localized debris field on the ocean surface have already expired. >> it is possible, richard? i mean, of course its possible. but probable that we never find it at all? >> the plane? >> yep. >> im not going there. im absolutely not going there. ive said from day one -- >> you have sai...

And were not talking years. >> van, how long do you think it will take? obviously, the search team has been very, very cautious on this and said it could take weeks and months, even with the information they have for that autonomous vehicle to pick up any debris, if there is debris down there? >> well, the problem were going to run into from here on out, the operation will start going slower and slower, at least as were watching it externally because they have to be incredibly careful. so what t...

Many thousands of miles where this plane could have been, that this is all relative to that narrow. but this is of course thousands of miles of shifting. will the search area move again? matthew chance is in perth tonight. matthew, whats the very latest as youre there? theyre getting ready to go out and search. and i know the planes are leaving from the base behind where you are now. >> yeah, theyre going to start leaving within the next few minutes apparently, erin. the very latest is weve had ...

Miles, that another way of saying its not where theyre looking for it right now? they are scouring it. they have lots of planes. they have lots of ships. they would have seen it, right? >> you would think. i mean, that ditching scenario sticks in my mind a lot, though. as a pilot, thats one of the things we think about a lot and talk about, and we train for. we dont do it obviously. but if the sea state were appropriate and you had a reasonably accomplished pilot, you could pull off a ditching. ...

Haystack, but at that stage we didnt even know which haystack. i think weve got a much clearer picture around the areas we need to concentrate on. and those will be the areas that will be associated with both the search on the surface and the debris search by aircraft today. >> all right. thank you very much, commander. we appreciate your taking the time. commander mcevoy. and richard quest, as you just saw is with me. here is the question. as you just raised the point, there has been no evidenc...

Intensifying as searchers urgently try to relocate the pings. at the same time, aircraft is getting ready for another day of scouring the ocean surface. lets bring in wing commander of the new zealand air force. hes joining us via skype. thanks, commander, for joining us. first of all, any updates on what youre learning as far as the search is concerned, under water and on the surface? >> so, at the moment what were looking at today is moving the aircraft search areas out to the west of where th...

And unless people were alive to scramble out with life rafts, there might be few clues it was ever there. and only a small target far beneath the surface. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> so richard, here is the thing. most any scenario ends up with pieces and debris somewhere, except for that kind of perfect landing on the surface, which would be incredibly difficult to pull off here. >> and even that you can argue as the plane went down, the pressure would crush and something -- >> right. at s...