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Get down to this kind of quality. we call it resolution. this is taken from an airplane flying at a much lower altitude. satellites will play an important part because they can cover a large area. the airplanes need to get that closer visual inspection. we ve talked about it in the breaking news just now. it was one of australia s airplanes. that shows their capability to see with much better clarity. from what i understand, it s more importantly the signals they re detecting on the plane. so there s a visual search, but it s the sensor package on the plane that can look for melts objects. so there are limits to satellite technology? there are. right now it s a legal limit. it s about 19 inches in resolution. this by comparison is probably ....
It s the end point of this generated flight path. however, that s a theoretical construct. it depends on the data you pit into it, namely, what speed was the airplane flying. you have to assume this plane was flying a certain speed. you can say there s the most efficient speed. if it was flying at a different speed or a different altitude, you would wind up at a different part of the ocean. if we re able to rule out this square, that might say let s look somewhere else. everything s shifting and swirling. it s not like a land search where you can put a grid on the ground and look at every square. everything s moving, everything s shifting. i was going to ask, can you ever rule out this area? at what point can you say it s not there in this area they ve been searching now seemingly for a few weeks? ....
Carry black boxes. there s also black boxes in cars. most have a small black box to record when airbags deploy and wrecks, things of that nature. interesting you bring it up, viewers tweeting back and forth, questions about this plane. that s question a lot, if our car has gps, technology that allows us to watch movies or online shop while we re on an airplane flying 35,000 feet, why is it this plane is so difficult to find. why black box technology is a key to that. could be done telemetriwise. since air france went down, there have been 1.56 million flights around the globe. that s an awful lot of data have you to store on the ground, terrestrial location. this way you don t need it, you just have what s on board a plane if there s an accident. ....
Training on hydraulic jacks. this looked like a simplified flight training device that he had in his home. jenna: a couple of questions focused on the expertise of a pilot. one of the things that s come up is a difference in altitude and it s a question that a lot of viewers have been asking, how the altitude affects the distance you can fly. we ve heard this plane maintained regular altitude but some reports are from a local newspaper in malaysia that the plane may have gone as little as 5,000 feet. can you walk us through why that s significant? absolutely. for an airplane to fly at 5,000 feet, it s going to use up so much more fuel than an airplane flying 35,000, 38,000 feet. that s why airplanes fly that high. we don t use as much fuel at that altitude. if a plane was flying a long time at 5,000 feet, it would only be able to fly a couple of hours compared to what they re saying it was flying at five to ....
Extremely experienced investigating flight crashes, they are now on the ground and now having they re getting their hands dirty in helping the malaysians on this. i hope so. there s no organization better than the ntsb. they re amazing. kirk, i ll ask the question you couldn t hear. in listening on to all that s gone on in this investigation, what do you make of it as an expert in flight? it s just amazing. that type of airplane completely disappearing. it s like the bermuda triangle or something. i can t see that airplane flying 2200 miles landing at an airport without somebody knowing. that has to land at a big airport which is usually a major city. it s unreasonable that airplane flew somewhere else unless it s some secret military base or something, for it to just disappear. with the technology we have ....