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Still coming through their imagery to find something. i even heard a report of a crowd source effort that has the general public looking through a number of imagery sources. all of that is crucial so we stand where we should start looking in areas where we are confident the plane cant be because we still dont see anything on the ocean surface. that relates back to the company im with now, which is understand where we should look and where we shouldnt look based on our mathematical confidence on ...

Deep. if the jetliner went down in this remote part of the indian ocean and if any debris is found, it may no the be anywhere near the possible crash site beneath the surface. thats because things move very fast on the ocean surface. median ocean current feet is about a foot per second. an object moves about 16 miles a day. this plane has been missing for two weeks. so any potential debris could have traveled 224 miles in any direction. that was an issue in the last major aviation investigation ...

Austral australia. this is an area of open water that runs up to three miles deep. if the jetliner went down in this remote part of the indian ocean and if any debris is found, it may no the be anywhere near the possible crash site beneath the surface. thats because things move very fast on the ocean surface. median ocean current feet is about a foot per second. an object moves about 16 miles a day. this plane has been missing for two weeks. so any potential debris could have traveled 224 miles ...

Weather. the gear can see through that weather. and the bottom line is that these aircraft with their gear onboard are designed to search for submarines. this is for anti-submarine warfare. theyre now deploying this equipment over the area to see if they can find that debris floating on the surface or maybe even just below the surface. im going to take a map here and take you down to the area that were looking at. so as you look at the map here, and i just sort of telestrate, thats the general a...

Tailored towards this kind of search? versus being sort of dual use? >> sure. i cant speak too much to the military hardware, but listening, i think the military hardware is mostly listening for the pinger and identifying objects on the surface of the ocean. you know, radar is pretty good. in terms of the scientific equipment, i can tell you that this is exactly what we do as scientists. in fact, there was a survey at the top of this very ridge. i dont know who did it yet. ill check that out. th...

The enormous search area. >> right. >> as long as its such a long area, its going to be real hard to find something. >> on that note, andrew, china is moving 21 of its satellites into position to search for the plane. talk to us about how satellite images are shared between their different agencies. would you say the more help the better from different nations? or does this further complicate the search? >> no. in this situation, the more data, the better. its always more welcome. i told you bef...

Form of gps tracking for the airplane, it hasnt been mandated or incorporated. so we really rely on radar as the primary source for tracking an airplane, no matter where is it is in the world. >> but given the time scale here, obviously there have been other plane crashes where its taken a long time to try to establish what has happened. but are you confident at all from all that youre reading, hearing, that we will make any inroads to finding this plane in the next few days? >> im not sure abou...

>> but given the time scale here, obviously there have been other plane crashes where its taken a long time to try to establish what has happened. but are you confident at all from all that youre reading, hearing, that we will make any inroads to finding this plane in the next few days? >> im not sure about the next few days, but i do believe that there will be evidence found in the actual accident site. it may take a while, this is kind of a unique accident. unlike air france 447 where the rada...

Was it mechanical failure, pilot error or terrorism? sources say nothing can be ruled in or out. they note the stolen passports may be tied to drug smuggling and unrelated to the disappearance of the plane. every person on that plane is going to be looked at, all passengers and all crew. the fbi has teams of forensic experts ready to go if the malaysians will let them in. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> the u.s. navy has also joined the search. the "uss pinckney," a guided missile destro...

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