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The different thermal layers in the ocean. they have cold layers and different layers in the ocean. this is a huge challenge and they make the point, if we are talking about the size of denver you cant run a pinger locater over the entire metropolitan depths of denver. talk about a needle in the hay stack they dont have the hay stack yet. and then the same thing with the submersibles. they need to isolate the area they need to focus on and then bring in the submersibles and the pinger locater. >...

You pass out, passengers pass out. airplanes got plenty of fuel. its on a predemmtermined cours. it will now fly for hours until eventually it runs out of fuel. thats the scenario. we dont know if it really happened that way. many speculate it could have. >> miles obrien, the plane did make several turns. so would that be possible under an auto pilot scenario? >> you would have to put in the way-points for those turns. that given the scenario you just laid out is highly unlikely. what that pilot...

The plane is designed to be level and controlled and to make a slow descent and we are doing that. now, again, its a simulator, so of course the engines, its possible one would flame out after the other. mitchell believes that one engine would compensate automatically for that, right? >> yeah. we have a compensator in this aircraft, the 777. so yes. in an event of an emergency, im not sure if you had electrical power if that would happen. but any airplane, big or small, most of the time its goin...

And in doing so we basically just -- now, you know, the first officer he was new. he was inexperienced on the 777. he had a few hours, many hours, 2,000 hours on a 773. he would have just come from the simulator. so he would have known the system backwards and forwards and new captains like flying with new fos because they know the technology backwards. but as to just deciding to run up the flagpole, an allegation against a captain on the basis of method and elimination, we have to make our own ...

Possible one would flame out after the other. mitchell believes that actually one engine if its still running would compensate automatically for that, right? >> yeah. we have a thrust asymmetric compensator in the 777. so yes, in the event of an engine failure, any asimilymmet cross will be. any airplane big or small most of the time its going to be designed to be stable. >> were still descending, still going down, still level. its possible you could wing over and die. >> miles, the thing about ...

Drive of the captains simulator and the pilots laptops that british and u.s. forensics experts have been working to recover. erin? >> pamela, thank you very much. and i want to bring in our panel. richard quest, our aviation analyst miles obrien, attorney arthur rosenberg and editor-in-chief of flying magazine, robert guyer. miles, search area smaller. the investigation a heck of a lot bigger. are we ever going to know where the plane went down? >> i still say we dont know where the haystack is....

Good morning. im carol costello. thank you for joining me. stormy weather ended search operations today. terrible news in light of the fact investigators have narrowed the search for flight 370 to 469,000 nautical scare miles in the indian ocean. the other challenge, searchers dont know what wreckage to look for. they dont know how it crashed. did it glide and then crash or nose dive into the ocean? now mitchell and martin savidge. >> good morning carol. what were going to investigation is the a...

Quickly after that as to what was found or what was relayed back. as of now, everything that they find will go back to the malaysian government. as weve seen, they dont feel the need to tell everybody as much as we would normally say in this country during a crisis like this. they may hold it close to the vest. we may not know for a long time exactly what the findings were. >> well, considering that the families are demanding answers and putting pressure on the malaysian government, might they b...

Thing, the malaysian government and malaysian airlines have decided they dont want the scrutiny, the public eye, the responsibility anymore. i dont know, and like i said yesterday, we all said yesterday, the families must be absolutely outraged and were seeing it right now. they ought to be ticked off. >> you think the world press is going to leave it alone because the malaysians say its over? >> i think it will take a while for the investigative reporters to try to work to see what they can fin...

Of a boeing or an airbus, you know, very high-tech piece of machinery, brings them 100 years into the economy, into globalization. but their civil aviation doesnt necessarily match what their ability to purchase does. do you see that mismatch? is this an example of that mismatch? >> well, i have to say, in this case, boeing and, indeed, airbus, these two main, big manufacturers, theyre very clever. theyve produced aircraft which do not require a huge amount of technical skill to operate. they ar...