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Hopefully of numerous pieces of debris, and then from there we have our oceanography team ready to reverse engineer the environmentals. so they will do a reverse plot going back 18 days, taking into account the current, the wind, the sea state. and then they will from the last confirmation of debris they will work backwards to create this starting point of where the plane may have crash landed. of course, that s when we ll get our towed fingpinger locater on scene. the towed pinger locater, where is it at this point? it s in perth right now. and the critical thing to know is, the search area right now is way too big still. it will not be effective to use that when you don t have a good datum. it needs to be towed very ....
Australians. so every day is different. it just depends on where they need us. that s an australian-coordinated assignment that we get via the ato. everybody sort of divides up the territory to make sure you re not overlapping, is that right? yeah, that s correct. and you know, one thing to stress is this is still a big area, and we re talking hundreds of miles. and to be quite honest, still too big to effectively get a good sense of where the plane may have crash landed. and as you know, we really can t effectively use the towed pinger locator before we get a good sense of where it was. and that s why we re out here searching, to get a good datum, a good point of where we think the plane may have landed, then we can get our pinger locator out there to listen to that black box ping, but the search ....
You. that s about 79 feet in the entire state of west virginia. west virginia is about the same size as a search zone. so you get a sense of the challenge here. looking for something that is about the length of a tennis court by air in rolling waves in area the size of west virginia. t.j., back to you. tom, who s been on this, thank you so much. we ll check back in. turning to former admiral allen. sir, thank you for being here. we hear how large the search area, even narrowed down. give us an idea here, sir, just how i guess, improbable is it even if you know the search area now and it is a little smaller, still how impossible is it that they find anything? well, t.j., under international search and rescue doctrine, there are key terms to be familiar with. one is datum. ....
Extrapolated version of a last known position. when you are talking about the south indian ocean, the vastness of that body of water, the depth of that body of water, the terrain around it that body of water makes it an extraordinarily difficult search pattern to put into place. you know, when hunter left jfk and exploded in the air the datum was immediate and well known. even the jfk jr. flight which left new york on its way to martha s vineyard very well known pattern, we knew exactly where to search and we found the debris exactly where we expected to find it in this instance, 13 days later, the amall gam of as much data as can be brought to bear in an area of the south indian ocean which in itself is a guess from the original flight path makes this almost impossible search pattern to lay out. you are going to have to be very very lucky. mr. christianson, when you search, it depends on human beings now with eyes. they have to see. ....
Now, there is nothing wrong with wanting to follow the jet liner story, it s a mystery. folks like that. when the media begins to pander to the audience and fabricate things, then there is a problem. we re living in an extremely dangerous age where thugs like putin and the mullahs of iran could ignite a world war. we need honest and courageous media. do we have that? you make the call. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. rescue and location that s going on right now in the southern indian ocean. joining us on the phone from new london, connecticut, admirable james loy the former commandant of the u.s. coast guard. san francisco aviation pilot conducted search and rescue missions for the air force. admiral loy begin with you. tell me about the south indian ocean. what are we dealing with? it s enormous challenge. any set of activities is datum the whole notion of what is the most logical place, either it s the last known position or an ....