Page 209 - Ping News Today

Search. as far as the likelihood that they find this plane, this is a challenge. this is more like a needle in a hayfield. the story we wrote today made the pointt that although they have the corridor, the southern corridor where they think the plane flew depending on the speed of the plane you get very large differences in the outcomes of the calculations. hundreds of miles of difference. i heard today is that broad search area is really like the size of alaska. so youve got these autonomous ve...

Just talking about that last ping. i agree this is a exciting development. hopefully it will establish a tighter area where we can put the search and put the assets that will benefit getting this done quickly. >> thank you for being with us. were going to talk much more about this. >> we will get back to our coverage of flight 370 in just a moment. >> first, to a story in washington state that needs our attention. the death toll keeps rising from a mudslide in washington state. officials says as...

They do not know what that means, but they do know that at 9:15 when the plane was scheduled to ping again, it did not. listen to authorities. >> sometime between 00: 11 utc and 00:50 utc, the satellite was no longer able to communicate with the aircraft. >> the plane likely hit the water between 8:19 local time and 9:15 when they did not get that final ping, megyn. thats a very wide gap for a plane traveling that fast. did the plane plunge into the water or did it glide into the water? a 777 ca...

Clues that we used after that. but having an idea where the last known position is, even if its fairly sloppy, means thats a great place to start. and i couldnt agree more. i agree with miles completely. we need to be over there. we need to take a closer look at it. but what a great place to start. and the sooner to better to start the underwater search. >> richard? >> because this thinping is proy more significant than the other ones, bearing in mind the time that we know that the plane would h...

Theyre parts abdul knows very well. >> measuring 88 parameters, which is the most ever. >> reporter: hes the ceo of a company in ft. lauderdale that buys commercial planes, then refurbishes and sells the parts. right now theyre pull eight part this boeing 777 flown by malaysia airlines, the same make and model as flight 370. this cockpit recorder is identical to the one that could tell investigators why and how mh-370 disappeared. >> they consist of three parts. youve got the element which recor...

Or precisely where. until they find solid evidence there will be no relief for the suffering families. joining me is alastair rosenschein. hes been giving excellent insight over the past few days from the london studio. we thank you for joining us this morning. among the mysteries according to the malaysian government, theres analysis that the plane didnt answer the final ping about 9:15 a.m. local time. leading them to think that the electronics on this plane stopped working some time between 8...

We know at 2:20 a.m., that plane made a turn. after that urn it, there were three pings in rapid succession. they believe that those rapid pings have to do with a rapid change in altitude. that may be why those pings were generated. so with this final ping, which was a failed hand shake, it may be that that too was generated by a rather rapid change in altitude, which, of course, could mean the planes final path into the ocean and could give them a great lead in terms of pinpointing where the pl...

To connect. >> and les abend, we talked to miles obrian in the 8:00, he suggested that partial ping could have been from an electrical surge or even the plane hitting the water, which would really help investigators zero in on an area to search. >> i contemplated that for a little bit. what i thought it might be was the fact that the last engine shut down or flamed out, because of fuel exhaustion, which would have -- this airplane is designed to deploy a ram air turbine, which operates one syste...

>> if these various pings show a radius of x miles where the plane could be, on the sixth one, youve got up to an hour out of it where it could have been. but a ping only eight minutes later, you can drill down and prove the significance of that. and suddenly you are honing in on a much smaller area to search. it will still be huge, but it will be a significant improvement. >> family members in beijing today protesting out in the streets, wanting journalists to see them being held by back author...

Partially handshake didnt make full contact. the "wall street journal" reported they dont believe it was done by anyone on board. according to investigators. in wasnt someone trying to make a distress signal. this partial ping does help investigators narrow things down, in terms of reference, where the aircraft is, exactly. or could be. and of course, the time frame. they know that flight went missing some time between 8:15 and 9:15 a.m. the search, i want to turn to the criminal investigation u...