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Mh370 ended its flight in the southern indian ocean. thats the official statement and thats then and the plane is lost. this debris simply confirms what the malaysian government stated way back last year. and the university of western australia is now working on a reverse drift analysis of this piece of debris and they are hoping thats going to give some guidance to the searchers of a tighter area to look where this may have come from. >> jeffrey, so a cautious optimism about this piece of debri...

How many clues in the reengineering process does it begin to give? >> i think, first of all, youve got the reverse drift to take you back to roughly the same area where they are already searching. then you have the barnicles and sea damage that will tell you how long it was in the ocean for. and that helps you. but they already believe, because of the data they are in quote, the right area. but that right area is vast and 120,000 square kilometers. 56,000 square miles. can they get it any closer...

Tom says, doesnt tell us why. we know theyre searching. while you and i are talking now, there is a ship that is sear searching part of the 120,000 square kilometers authorities have designate the as the most probable area. 1500 miles southwest of perth, western australia. so the search goes on. and if this is part of mh-370, wolf, it redoubles the effort in many ways. but it doesnt tell us with any greater certainty exactly where it was. you are still left with the handshakes. frankly as peter ...

They had to get a ship out to verify. i guess theyll be able to sort of triangulate based on currents how far people have gone. >> right, the phrase is reverse drift. they will know with great detail the way the current was moving at different levels. the surface, the mid, and the lower levels. theyll be able to work out how far. but we see so much debris the seat the bodies the portholes, the part of the window section we saw. we see so much wreckage in a particular area that now they can do th...

It would have a 90-day battery. it changed to make every one manufactured past the day. 90 days. may have a reprieve. i have a message in to confirm that or not. >> david gallow one official is, thought that perhaps the black boxes could be buried by mud. just how much would that or potentially could hat muffle the sound of pings. could it make it so they couldnt be heard at all? >> yeah. it could potentially muffle the sound. i dont think enough that it would be take away too much from the rang...

Uncertain. so you could have two separate hypotheses and they could be conflicting. since you have overlap and uncertainty, you have to keep them both on the table until you exclude one, until you have credible evidence that takes one completely away. in the air france search, we actually had three separate agencies that did reverse drift modeling using their own current models and databases. it was the brazilian, the french, and the u.s. coast guard. and all three came up with separate, differe...

Conflicting. since you have overlap and uncertainty you, have you to keep both of them on the table until you exclude one, until you have credible evidence that takes one completely away. in the air france search, we actually had three separate agencies that did reverse drift modeling using their own current models and databases. it was the brazilian, the french, and the u.s. coast guard. and all three came up with separate, different origins for where the debris came from. it was very frustrati...

Vehicles to actually look in the water where the plane might actually be. theyre solely looking now, or theyre going to be looking today. theyre going to be looking under the surface. >> because that is what you have to do. that is traditional. >> but they must believe there is debris in that area. >> yes, for some reason -- i mean all last week we talked about reverse drift and engineering where the currents are moving. but he said clearly tonight the entry point, the crash point, all of which ...

Well get some better weather. the imaging capabilities today in our calendar day were not good. yesterday they were very good. so, were getting more and more data that can now be searched through and it looks like based on the meteor logical forecast we just saw that i think today imaging time will be good, as well. >> this is an if, too, but if you say you find this and its debris, richard, but has moved a long way. now, this is why that half ping was so important. perhaps that half ping indica...

Rest of the time all the way to the crash, we simply dont know at this point. >> we dont know. thats the significance of getting into the debris field. the fact this plane flew so far, set to be off the southwest coast of australia, is an extraordinary distance for that plane to have traveled under those circumstances. they are going to have to reverse any debris. remember, also, anderson, any debris they find now, they are going to have to reverse drift back up to the location of roughly 13, 14...