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We go through a landing check lift were before we land and want to make sure our gear us down so it's good the pilot knows the situation and is working to decrease the fuel load and make themselves lighter. >> also reduce the possibility of a major explosion. the more fuel you burn off, obviously the better off you'll be if there is a fire in the event of a belly landing you'll have a lot of sparks and the possibility of an explosion. >> it's a good point you make. different scenario, the pilot may choose to do a belly landing. different airplanes have different emergency procedures. i'm not s...

So i would like to see more corroboration, less reverse engineer where the search area is, and let's draw back the track and the path that the aircraft would have had to fly across malaysia and the transponder pinger was. what is that distance? could the aircraft be able to physically fly that with the fuel load we know it had? if it could, what were the logistics? i'm not convinced. >> he says he knows where it is within a few kilometers. >> yeah, i don't know how he knows that. how he can find that. you know, i'm sure on board a ship, it is impossible to -- with only the pinger, it is not en...

Once it floats with water, it's got very weighty components to it, the landing gear and the engines, of course. so it's not going to remain afloat in the water column. it's going to be negatively buoyant and go to the bottom. >> another viewers asked, flying as high and slow as possible to save fuel, would it have been possible to reach australia with the original fuel quantity? what do you think, steve? >> well, we have to calculate that. actually, you don't want to fly as slow as possible. it doesn't get better mileage at a slow speed. the airplane is designed for one person, which is to be ...

What we need to do is corroborate that evidence. as we know, the search has been going on in the south for a long time now. >> why is that? because it got picked up by something as it started to move south, right? >> they looked at the corelation mapping and it matched that. that's why they've said it has gone south. there are assumptions now on how far south it actually traveled. we've seen it's kind of moving north wards. but what was the fuel load, what was the altitude, what was the speed, did it dump fuel. we don't know. this is why we're having so many problems tracking the aircraft. >> ...

So basically, 400 knots is as fast as the aerodynamic frame is designed to go at 12,000 feet. why they are just not realizing this, we talked about this a week ago. i'm a little mystified. but they have the radar data now, and they're sharing information. a lot of this is sensitive stuff, i get all that. but that's why we have a sear thatch is much shorter -- far shorter than before. >> question for miles or mitchell. at 12,000 feet, at 400 knots, flying for six hours, do you get the range that puts it where it is now, miles? >> just back of the envelope stuff that we have, and this is -- we'r...