Page 237 - Ping News Today

Ping. what that means is the satellite communication system on the airplane over the course of the flight, if its not sending regular data, it will essentially be pinged by the satellite thats orbiting above to say, hey, are you there? and over the course of the time that elapsed, at least five hours, the satellite kept pinging the airplane and the airplane said, yes, im here, and i can receive data. so, what we know right now is the airplane was flying. it was in what appeared to be a normal cr...

Of the eastern of southern india. malaysian police have already said that hijacking or sabotage, both are i-avenues of sletion. others are with weather any will crew. >> the report of a ping being and u.s. satellite. and that discussing doss suggest that the plane may have flown or on for four or five hours after its disappearance. this kind of signal can be inat a timed when the air flight is in air. this led to extensive search even further. you are now hearing teams searching to the northwest...

And the seat of your pants, but planes arent like that. planes are engineered to do so much more and we had several accidents where, you know, it was blamed they said pilot suicide, it was a rutter deflection or they said it was an intentional action or a bomb and it wasnt, it was an exploding fuel tank. im reluctant to say and assume that somebody did this just based on past accident investigation. so much can go on on these wonderful, modern planes but when it goes wrong, it can go wrong witho...

Pings. >> well, words include more than they leave out. and words never say all there is to say about everything. the word "ping" started out in sonar. ping ping in a submarine. but theres an expression now, ill ping you, means ill send you an e-mail and remind you to do this. so theres two different kinds here. talking about the underwater clicking like a bell that would be a ping from my day. its also being used in this context to refer to a radar blip which has an echo or just a signal being ...

Search crews to the wreckage five days after it went down. the debris field was relatively contained. that shows it broke up when it hit the water before it sank 2 1/2 miles to the ocean floor. in 1996, twa flight 800 exploded in the sky near new york. debris scattered far and wide. investigators had to map out several debris fields. the cockpit sank, but the fuselage and wings scattered far because of how high up the plane was when it exploded. >> initial pieces of floating debris just give you...

They were heading towards the andaman islands, is there any possibility they could have landed? >> greg and i were speaking with and michael as well. i think as a journalist, i say getting too far into this whole speculation thing. but weve got nothing after a week here. we crossed into far fetched land. everything is on the table, including that possibility. its a big jet. what would you figure, greg, 7,000, 8,000 feet of runway? >> easily. >> assuming hes burned off his fuel -- >> thats not pr...

Planes front tire blows out during takeoff. new, dramatic pictures of this smokey scene. we will take you there this morning. wow, a lot going on this morning. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." im john berman. >> and im poppy harlow. christine romans is out. it is friday, july 14th, 5:00 a.m. on the coast. new questions about what happened to a malaysian jet missing for days with 239 people on board. u.s. officials say the plane continued to send ping to satellites for up to fi...

Structure, could be found floating six days if the aircraft struck the water. >> reporter: air france flight 447 crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009. in this case, floating debris led search crews to the wreckage five days after it went down. the debris field was relatively contained. that shows it broke up when it hit the water before it sank 2 1/2 miles to the ocean floor. in 1996, twa flight 800 exploded in the sky near new york. debris scattered far and wide. investigators had to map out...

Us here. you have been in trenches and covering this issue. tell us what the various data sources from within the plane mean. which are the most reliable? and when you look at that path that the plane appears to have taken, what do you make of that fact? do you see deliberate sabotage. >> the only real datapoint we have from the plane at 1:21 in the morning is a blinking signal, which essentially was like a ping, telling a satellite im here, im here, im here. it was only one ping an hour. it did...

Plane could have landed on that runway and was headed in that direction. whether in fact it did is something that remains to be seen. >> where is it now if it landed on the runway. we would have evidence of it. >> the scenarios that we are discussing, we are discussing because the primary radar points and the acres ping points that were plotted put the plane moving in that direction. within the realm of foreseeable scenarios should be considered. its a bit like medicine. when you are coming up w...