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Tracking the debris back with current modelling and searching the bottom of the ocean without narrowing the flight pattern down, it could be lot of forever. >> wie mentioned the search area about 100,000 square miles. we talked to the producer and we said if this search area were 10,000 square miles with everything perfect and weather conditions and technology equipment all a-ok, how long would that search take? >> i have exact experience with a blue fin 12 inch vehicle that we launched for three years and mapping 1800 square feet of bottom. based on performance of their systems, they don't wo...

Few hours ago. over the last few days it has been pretty challenging environmental conditions there. the area has been overcast, a little fog rolling in, a little bit of high seas. but the important thing to realize is that these planes and we have two search-and-rescue patrol planes flying they are all weather capable. they are built for this. and no matter the weather, they can resume their searching whether through radar, infrared, optical camera or visual search not just based on l. they are all weather capable. >> we in the media tend to make a lot about the weather but you're saying that...

Transponder off. we probably won't know who did that until we are able to retrieve the black box, if we ever are able to retrieve it. we know that after the transponder went off the plane flew for several hours. some of that was not totally in a normal flight pattern but it was not the type of erratic flying that would be associated normally with somebody who was committing an act of terrorism. so there are a number of things that they're still analyzing. but there is nothing that points to terrorism or a hijacking. but you simply can't rule that out at this point. >> let me press you on a poi...

Transponder off. we probably won't know who did that until we are able to retrieve the black box, if we ever are able to retrieve it. we know that after the transponder went off the plane flew for several hours. some of that was not totally in a normal flight pattern but it was not the type of erratic flying that would be associated normally with somebody who was committing an act of terrorism. so there are a number of things that they're still analyzing. but there is nothing that points to terrorism or a hijacking. but you simply can't rule that out at this point. >> let me press you on a poi...

A crew did exactly what their books told them to do, by descending and getting off the airway and that kind of coincides with that westerly heading that would have taken them to the indian ocean. now, if they were succumbed by smoke and fire, the airplane perhaps flew by itself for a while. so either exhausted its fuel supply, or crashed because the controls were perhaps melting. >> sure. now, it would make no sense to anybody like me, who doesn't have experience with this sort of thing, that the pilots would have programmed in these waypoints such that it's jog of a flight pattern would be of...