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Ive looked at it for that night. basically it was an east to west cross wind. it would have blown the plane a little bit to the west but would have no appreciable difference on the range. so basically 400 knots is as fast as the aerodynamic frame is designed to go at 12,000 feet. why they are just now realizing this, we talked about this a week ago. im a little mystified. they have the radar data now. theyve gotten their act together. theyre sharing this information. a lot of this is sensitive s...

Search box. work it backwards. calculate where the additional debris may be, where the data recorders may be. once they do that, they will then very likely quickly begin to use the u.s. navy technology that is going to the scene. and that is first that pinger locator, if you will, the device that will be put in the water and towed around and it will listen for the ping from the data recorders. there is also a navy unmanned remote piloted vehicle. essentially a mini sub, if you will. very small u...

Miles. so youve got to get that thing down pretty low and youve got to identify the location of the wreckage field, of course. and in retrospect, people who investigated air france 447 in 2009 actually took a device similar to this, if that device for all i know, over the wreckage. where, in fact, they later found the black boxes, and there was no pinging, so we cant be guaranteed that there is a ping. were getting toward the edge of the guaranteed 30-day life span, but for all we know, it never...

Central data bank so were getting more, not less? were getting pretty much, but still, now you realize just how great the demand is. let me start with les. >> well, you know, i go across the north atlantic quite a bit, a system, adsb a ground-based system through a satellite. were always tracked. this is amazing that this whole in this part of the world could provide this system. this technology is already there. my airline reeves constant data about almost every aspect of altitude, air speed. a...

Captain. great to have you, captain nash. thank you. its hard to believe weve been talking about this for three weeks. now they have this new search. im going to go a little off course to ask you this first. about the black box because time is ticking away literally. it only has a week or less if it performs as specified to give off the ping and give the answers it may hold. why is two hours enough? initially the ntsb told me two former chairmen it was 30 minutes. they fought hard to get it exte...

They did minutes after the emergency, or on the flight data recorder, and that was the key evidence in the case, and not having that would have really complicated our efforts. >> les, as an active pilot, do you believe changes is be made to the black boxes and changes should be made to the black boxes? >> well, i think changes are already in the works. i think its after 2015, ill be corrected if i get it wrong. 90 days on the beacon batteries. >> on the ping. >> i think there might be a possibil...

Information. radar data when the plane was in the south china see, crossing over the straight of malacca, how fast the plane was going. it is wildly significant how fast the plane was going in their calculations. remember, they are using that ping data from the satellite system to try to figure out triangulate where the plane was. >> that makes it worse if you say this isnt new information because that means that we have lost three weeks. if indeed this is the new area, we have lost three weeks....

As 12,000 feet. at 2:22 a.m., as the plane appears to be making another turn the satellite thehen picksp three more electronic pings. one right after the other in the span of just a few minutes. >> looks like they were initiated by the plane because the plane had lost contact with the satellite network. after that quick turn, maybe the plane banked sharply, i whatever happens is seemingly as malaysia 370 sends hourly pings or hand shakes. at 3:40, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40, and 8:11 a.m. >> the hourly pi...

And that that country, through their investigator in charge, has to secure the wreckage and make it available for the investigation. any wreckage that is obtained we will hold on behalf of the malaysian investigation team and await their instructions and were in continual discussions with the malaysians about the progress of the search and we will continue to discuss with them the handling of wreckage. >> so anyone that picks it up would have to hand it over to the australians? >> yes. we are in...

Can do you that from the air? >> most likely youd need the ship. the poseidon can search a wider swath of water. but youre most likely going to have to have somebody go out there and verify. >> my assumption is that the u.s. has the best satellite imagery out there, that u.s. satellites are involved, even though youre not releasing images publicly. >> thats right. we are helping with imagery to the degree that we can. were sharing that with investigators and the malaysian government, again, as b...