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And then we got the ping that said the air kraft was airborne for six hours. now you have to calculate how far will that airplane trafl given its nor mall cruise speed. the f.a.a. and it really was the f.a.a. and boeing who sat down and looked at the aircraft performance based on fuel load and what a cruise performance-type air speed would be and they determined where fuel exhaustion would have taken place. and it happens to be where they put that new search section. greg, appreciate you joining...

Photography. when the satellite photos they showed to public are probably not the precision and clarity that theyre actually looking at. they do that for military reasons for secrets. if we assume that the photographs from the satellite -- weve all heard our satellites could see the number on a license plate from space. you think the satellites could have beamed in and given a crisper picture. when you take that information with the flight path of the airplane that we know. we know the last poin...

Waypoint that was programmed into the flight management system, it will go into the mode where it will fly the last assigned ground track and keep going on that heading until essentially what will probably happen or may have happened, until the airplane runs out of gas. it wouldnt require inputs. its an automatic mode. the boeing and rockwell and honeywell built into that system and thats what it will do. >> thats a good question. that is being talked about. the next one is for you. this tweet f...

Buoys are that the planes will carry, some of them at least, theyll drop these sonar buoys in the water and theyll be listening, hoping to find some sort of ping from those flight data and voice recorders. >> well, in the air france search, wolf, we didnt use buoys. we used towed pinger locators which are towed from ships. im not sure theres a buoy thats capable of listening to this, but that would be ideal to get a large field out there which could direction find to where the pings are coming f...

Data recorders. but, again, to the pinging, are we seeing any news about that? >> you have to understand how the pinging works. this is sort of inexact. it can be 15 days. it could be another 20 days. its a bt ri thats basically inside that sends the pinging out. its right at the waters edge. and you cant be a hundred miles away in the water with a listening device and hear the ping. you have to be very close, almost on top of it. the depth of the water are 2, 2 1/2 miles down. so for that ping ...

Grid search and then climb back out and fly back for another three or four hours. so it doesnt leave a lot of time to actually search the area once the aircraft arrive. on the other hand, i know ships are in route and theyll be able to do a more thorough but slower search. >> greg, the ocean is as deep as l three miles in some places. will they even be able to hear the signal from the black box even if theyre on top of it? >> thats a good question. it depends on what assets theyre using to liste...

About half of the citys parking meters dont work. over to you guys. our live coverage continues with a licensed commercial pilot and form new york state criminal investigator. john, we saw the debris. weve been looking about, talking about it and we hear that a commercial vessel is getting close to getting eyes on it. what are your conclusions so far >> to believe that that would be this aircraft, which would discount every fact, or at least things we were told about facts, the four way points...

They come to the south. as the pings come to the south hour by hour, they would have been in a line. 560 miles per hour until it runs out of fuel. ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. once an hour. the plane runs out of fuel right in that box. this box, just a couple of days ago was this big. they didnt make it that small for no reason. to get the other theorists up here, still involved. i will take you on a tour keeping the pings and older, older, older. 8:11 a.m. i can get you a ping and a ping and a...

That data? >> i think all of the data that is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasnt turned off. thats how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we dont have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now its anyones guess and we will not get...

Search because it is not reaching out across hundreds and thousands of square miles. it is generated by the energy by the battery pack associated with it. it ha had a certain level of intensity. you have to be close enough to it to detect that ping and if it is the southern part of the indian ocean, that can get pretty deep as compared to the alternative course. we have to get close enough to it to be able to hear that ping. the first order of business is to shrink the search area. it has grown ...