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Sky. in a more or less vertical attitude. what happens is we have radar data that shows that the aircraft was found approximately 66 miles from its last known position. now, most airliners have a glide ratio of about 15-1. simply what it means from about 33,000 feet they can glide about 93 miles. so where the aircraft was found from the last known position suggests the glide. however, the radar data suggests a very low ground speed which suggests an arrow die dammic. its going to be important th...

Okay. understandable that a lot of people are saying wow, i cant believe this happened again, but there are some very important differences here to keep in mind right, walk us through them. >> well i think one of the most important differences is we do have an idea where the plane was because we at least we believe that we have accurate radar data as to where the plane was when the plane may have gotten in trouble. when the radar information ceased when the last radio communication os cured, et ...

Quote, is on the bottom of the sea. let me go to cnn aviation analysts let me read you a little bit more that we have from the head of this search and rescue agency quote, this is the translation, quote, the coordination that was given to us and the evolution from the calculation point is in the middle of the sea, our early conjecture is that the plane is on the bottom of the sea. this is about 25 26 hours after it disappeared from radar. how could they know that this soon? >> they, it seems to ...

Just about 40 minutes after this plane took off. what that last signal was specifically and what it tells us? >> right. and theres a little bit of a, a little bit of a mystery about some of the signals. now the initial information said that first the radar data went down which is really nothing more than coordinates. the radar shows you where you are and it is primary radar, its literally just a blip on the screen and if you have a secondary, then you have altitude and other information. and the...

Before it stalls. so you do run into that situation. but as long as youre not experiencing a lot of airplane upset in the form of turbulence youre still in an okay situation as long as youre monitoring the power for the airplane and how the systems are operating. >> you raise an interesting point, because i was talking to a friend and colleague who is an aviation expert in australia, and he made that point. said hed been looking at the radar information that was available and said they were at 3...

Yet if theres any emergency locator transmissions. the importance of guesting all the radar data immediately and sending the assets to search in the last radar transmission and we do know everything didnt go down at once. first the radar that went off of radar and then the radio went off a minute later and then finally the automatic broadcasting capabilities went down. so its possible that the plane was in distress, the pilots reaction to a problem with the plane in bad weather will be looked at...

370. but they did indicate that they did have radar tracking. so whether or not they have it at this point the point is to get the information immediately so they do not spend time -- for example, on 370 four days were lost searching in the south china sea, and later the malaysian military indicated that they knew the plane had taken a turn and gone up and around indonesia. so at this point its important not to have any sort of wild hares, if you will, and look at places it should not be but ins...

Air. the job also, unlike the indian ocean where it is believed to have gone down which is quite isolated. its an area of such a huge vast area that searchers are trying to find this plane and havent been successful now for ten months, in this case though, there is a lot more sea traffic. so youre going to see boats that are deployed. youre going to see aircraft. there will be offers of assistance from other countries if it becomes clear that that kind of help is needed. but there are a lot of k...

Trafficked in terms of a shipping route and is relatively shallow. does that help? >> of course it helps. its going to help with the -- if indeed tom is correct with the meteorological report about the seas calming down you know if we have an unfortunate situation where the airplane is in fragments, theyre going to be able to at least locate those fragments quick erer. the fact it is a smaller area, we also have primary radar data from my understanding. so even if the airplane did potentially br...

That saw this event. some initial reports that evening showed some anomalies on one of the radars that was mistaken by someone from the faa as a missile hitting the plane. and later on, it was determined to be some sort of electrical interference that happens all the time. but sure, the radars were critically important. >> the fbi hung on to every bit of the radar data and they tried and tried and tried to connect those dots, if you will, and despite their best efforts, they were not able to pro...