when you re doing a search and need visibility, rain is the enemy. they could see six inches of rain. the weather will not cooperate over the next two days at least. you get low visibility with clouds and rain and thunderstorms with the winds also make the seas choppy. even just trying to visually spot anything will be difficult for people even on ships in the water. all right, bill. thanks very much. anthony roman, let s talk about the plane involved here. what type of plane it was, its track record its safety record compare it to other planes. let s talk about that. the a-300 series of aircraft is manufactured by france. it is the competitor of the american boeing series of aircraft. you know in mh-370 it was a boeing 777. here we had airbus a-320. it really has done wonders in improving the safety of aviation
before this. here s the approximate search area that we re watching. halfway in between singapore there and surabaya. now the weather over the last two days has been actually relatively calm considering it s monsoon season but the forecast over the next two to three days our computers are estimating the rainfall possibilities. normally we don t care about rain over the ocean. we won t get flooding. when you do a search and you need visibility rain is the enemy. they could see as much as six inches of rain right over that search area where the words java sea is located. the weather is not going to cooperate over the next two days at least. of course you get low visibility with clouds and rain and thunderstorms with the winds and also make the seas choppy. even just trying to visually spot anything is going to be difficult for people even on ships in the water. all right. bill karins. anthony roman, one of the things that pops into a lot of people s minds is the question of why no call
are estimating this is the rainfall possibilities. normally we don t care about rain over the ocean. we re not going to get flooding but when you are doing a search and need visibility rain is the enemy. they could see as much as six inches of rain right over the search area where the words java sea is located. the weather is not going to cooperate over the next two days at least. you get the low visibility with the clouds and rain and the winds make the seas choppy. so if you try to visually spot anything it will be difficult on people even on ships in the water. all right bill karins one of the things that pops into a lot of people s minds is the question of why no call from the pilot? the plane s in trouble. we re in trouble. why no call. well that s a common question but it s not for pilots. simply because the primary responsibility of all pilots is to maintain control of the aircraft. there s a man tra from day one of flight school aviate navigate
australians jumped in to minimize the response time so that they wouldn t be criticized because i think we learned a lot of lessons from mh-370. you would say initial analysis is it was far better than 370. absolutely. they are already out searching and searching the first day it is just that weather is the limiting factor for them to do a comprehensive search. who makes a decision for that plane to take off? the pilot says we can do it or dispatch ground control that says you have to take off. years ago it used to be the final decision of the flight crew. because of accidents that the ntsb investigated here in the united states, we found that there needed to be joint decision making. you couldn t have pilots making solo decisions so now it s a joint decision making process and that s typically the way it should work. you need that input. dispatchers are doing a specific
the flight path but so far they haven t spotted anything concrete. four countries are assisting in this search. malaysia singapore, indonesia is leading it and australia has given assistance. they have set an ap3c. they searched all day yesterday and all day today and weather does seem like a factor. quite cloudy here today so visibility is less than ideal. tomorrow it s supposed to rain and supposed to rain for the next few days. it s monsoon season out here and the wet weather will contribute to a much more difficult search effort on the water. they re hoping if it is not in the water, i know it sounds not too optimistic at the moment because their best educated guess is its under the java sea. they hope somehow it landed on land. there s quite a few islands in that area. they re hoping that potentially there could be some survivors. this is still very much a search