floatation devices and the like. >> reporter: well, you put it perfectly when you said good old-fashioned eyeballs. the military is trying to rely plane that is get there faster and then use good old-fashioned eyeballs. the civilian planes acan fly almost at the speed of sound. it will get down there in a fraction of the time. they'll be able to get down there very, very quickly. they will be able to spend some time there and then zoom back. the downtall fall they don't ha radar. they have to use people who are trained to look for debris. they're hoping to catch the debris that might float. seats and life jackets. now, as far as the military prop planes, they'll take four hours to get down there but they have the radar. so it's a give or take. trying to flood the zone, anderson. >> we're going to talk to a commander from the u.s. navy involved in the search from the seventh fleet about what assets they have in play.