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More specifically the indian ocean gyre, essentially a garbage patch overflowing with plastic. the massive current spins counterclockwise. he says that gyres are like plastic soup. >> that is typical of what the material looks like. >> reporter: in 2010, he sailed through the indian ocean gyre, the same search area where the searchers are looking for doo d ed flight 370. >> what we found were buoys, buckets like the ones behind me, crates, consumer goods like bottles and caps and bags and forks and knives. there was so much stuff already there. so the aircraft is blending into all that. >> rep...

That flight 370 continued on for hours after its last transmission. some families clung to this as evidence that their loved ones may have landed safely. that new admission spawned an ever evolving map of search possibilities. then, new satellite images emerged. march 20 and 23rd, australia and france released satellite images showing large objects some measuring more than 70 feet floating in the south indian ocean. march 24th, the malaysian prime minister made this solemn announcement. >> flight 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> international search teamis s descended upon western au...

Be a lot more debris to spot and they are spotting in those areas and not finding anything. i am leaning towards the fact that it is more in tact than say the flight 447 was in the air france accident. >> jim hall is that possible? i want to end with you. is it really possible that the triple 7 could have crash landed in tact? >> not in my experience. both twa and egypt air had several debris fields. one person's opinion is as good as anothers until we find the wreckage. >> jim hall, thank you both so much. we have talked a lot about exactly how deep the indian ocean is in this search area. co...

But we can find it. and i'm very confident. i don't think the silt issue is an issue, you know. i've -- like i said, i've seen debris fields from the thresher and the scorpion where they drop nuclear reactors. so yes, the very, very heavy objects will go into the bottom to some degree. but engines, for example, from the turkish phantom 5 were sitting right on the surface of the ocean. you couldn't have had a heavier object hit a soft bunch of mud. so i don't think this thing is buried. certainly the fact that you can hear the pinger, it's not buried. so i think you're going to find a large deb...

Tank erupted on twa 800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. the same thing could be true in malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft, and things would have come out. so you would have more debris along a longer flight path. >> reporter: a hard landing or crash into the water is no less destructive, but it may produce a smaller target for searchers. when that air france jet...