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Images of the two pieces of debris is a couple days old. they have to find it and trace it back. dan simon, thank you for that explanation. coming up next, we are taking you about 1500 miles off the coast of australia where the spotlight is today. that's where the possible debris is located. we will give you a virtual view of the area and take a closer look at the challenges the search crews will be facing and remember this? we talked about this last week. the website we have beeni tellig you about that you can look at the images yourself. the water for clues. now cnn learned that the company ...

>> right. we were dealing with a massive search area here to north and the south. the ntsb and faa compiled all of the relevant data. they considered water movement and radar that showed the path of the plane and assumed the plane's speed. from all that was, they derived a possible search area in the southern part of the indian ocean. now today we have the satellite images which you are looking at. it shows images of possible debris from that plane. authorities say what makes these images so credible is that it places the debro in the same general area as where the ntsb and faa data said that ...

Pilots were incapacitated. the plane is not getting a response. it will go lower and lower and lower. we are now 160 feet, 150 feet. this would all be happening. the problem at this point is that the plane is not going to land itself automatically in the water. he is able to hold it because he is flying it manually, but no auto pilot will take it down gently evenly on to the surface of this water. we know about the miracle on the hudson. that was a miracle for a reason. this plane would not do that and we will not attempt to simulate that. >> let's not do that, but i see how close to the water...

Them and see them and assess them to know whether it's meaningful or not. >> caution in every word there, but the bottom line, flight 370 could be resting 1500 miles off the coast of australia in the unforgiving waters of the southern indian ocean. of course until they find these objects, whatever this is, we can't be sure about this. but let's stick with what we are sure of. one of the objects is huge. this here about 24 meters long or 79 feet long. the other is similar. five meters and 16 feet. the find was announced by the prime minister as planes were immediately dispatched to scour the ar...

Let's take that and go to martin savage with the flight instructor mitchell casado. you two have programmed the cockpit to fly over the indian ocean near this site of possible debris. could the plane have made it that far? >> that was the first test we did. we wanted to load the plane with the fuel they think they had. about seven hours worth and point it south. we showed earlier that this plane -- there is a lot of things we don't know, but this plane could easily have made it and had time to spare and gone further. we are right now over the southern indian ocean and the simulator, i can show...