Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20140320 00:21:00 :

CNN Anderson Cooper 360 March 20, 2014 00:21:00

flight takeoff, it's such a huge variable. so what we normally do in the u.s. navy, when we come upon this situation we immediately launch a helicopter and we establish a central point where we think the last known contact was. that's called a datum. so from this datum we calculate the currents and the winds. and that is why these search areas slowly expand. and so for what we usually do for a search and rescue you look at that first 72 hours. it can grow fairly big but within your helicopter range. well, now that is completely a different scenario. and the current and the winds and the set and drift on there play a huge factor. we can track that slightly -- we can drop a sonar buoy and get a kind of a gps position that tracks the environmentals, but it's such a long period of time it is certainly a huge factor.

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