south indian ocean. maybe it s an consistent. i hope it is. but let s keep an open mind here. let s not build a house of cards. well, listen, you make a good point that all theorys are still open because investigator have made no final conclusions, just new information, taking the information as it comes. i want to thank our panel. so many difficult issues to explain to our viewers here. mary, ric, kit, and david, we ll have yor yao back to talk more in just a few minutes. but first, searching a vast, dark ocean poses a range of technical problems. we ll talk about them.
continuing concern and i know you didn t have much concern from the beginning that the piles intentionally took this plane off course for something nefarious, for instance? i would think it should because that was all we had unless something has come up with the fbi searching the pilots computers and flight simulator and the one phone call that was made from the piles on the ground, which is very, very common. i mean, all my pilot friends do that as well. but unless something turns up there, there just was nothing to point the finger at these pilots. and so i think that should, but really at this point in the investigation doesn t make a lot of difference. at this point we know we ve got to find it in the sea and we have to because it becomes even more important because now we know there was most likely something wrong with the plane and there are a thousand of them out there, these planes. we have to find it to make sure aviation can go forward safely. ric, i want to give you
pick out individual pieces of debris but maybe something that s interesting and at that point you have to deploy other pieces of equipment that can go deeper, things like remotely operated vehicles. those go down to the bottom. they re tethered to the surface via cable and eventually a robot submarine you can drive around from the surface and it will either survey the bottom with sound or look directly with lights and see if it can find more debris that way. it s a tough thing. i ve seen the images they look on the first scans and they look like amorphous shapes. you have to use magic as much as anything else. this is uncomfortable but air france, two years before they found that plane but they knew where it went down in general. is there a chance this plane will never be found? i think there that s a significant possibility, and i m obviously loathe to say, that very disappointing for the families involved. but when the ocean reclaims things as it so often does, very
primary radar where the plane is going where it needs to go. that s not a catastrophic failure. very good point. david, thanks for your patience. we ll come back after the break as i want your view on that point as well. meanwhile, did flight 370 become a so-called zombie plane with no one in control? it has happened before. we ll explore that theory.
it s impossible not only to zero in on a correct theory but also eliminate other theories which may not turn out to be right but it s a process of elimination at this point i suppose. exactly right. chad myers in atlanta, thanks very much. when we come back, new information on that search for flight 370.