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Where would it go? those are questions that investigators have to deal with. we talk so much about speculation, but in the command post we have reasonable deduction. we use it all the time to take us where we want to go. i would say the reason we're on this debris off the australian coast is because of the reasonable deduction made by the ntsb and the navy, and the investigators, because they took the satellite pings, they took the fuel load, the known weather conditions, and they said, hey, we ought to look here. someone may call that speculation, but in that case, i would call that reasonabl...

And then we got the ping that said the air kraft was airborne for six hours. now you have to calculate how far will that airplane trafl given its nor mall cruise speed. the f.a.a. and it really was the f.a.a. and boeing who sat down and looked at the aircraft performance based on fuel load and what a cruise performance-type air speed would be and they determined where fuel exhaustion would have taken place. and it happens to be where they put that new search section. greg, appreciate you joining is. we've been talking about this all night long since we got the information from australiament we...

The ground on the runway in kuala lumpur and take off in just a moment. fuel will be the real consideration. we believe they were loaded with seven hours of fuel. let me show you something here on the dash board. i can call up the fuel load. it's listed here on this tv screen and these are the wing tanks. it's got, well, nearly 20,000 kilos of fuel in each wing tank and nearly 30,000 in the center tank. our total fuel is nearly 70,000 kilos. that's not anywhere near as full of fuel as this plane could possibly be. but it's a good start. we think that's what we were at. so if you would, please,...

Satellite and radar data and then factored in the weather, jet's fuel load and glide time. today australian authorities consistently lowered expectations. the dire weather conditions are a factor, and the images are hopeful but not definitive. >> the objects are relatively instinct on the imagery. i don't profess to be an expert in assessing image ricer but those who are expert indicate they're credible sightings. >> if the debris is confirmed, because it's in interinternational water, the investigation falls to the malaysians. u.s. can join as a second party but there's no scenario that would...

Long that no one noticed? >> they are everywhere in the world. it's used for training during past wars and all that sort of thing. i used to fly flight instructor out of a little tiny airport near near gainsville, florida called willisston and it was 7500 feet concrete and i think it was 100 -- either 75 or 100 feet wide. can you land a 777 right there. can you land a 777 a lot of places that you can't take off because you burn the fuel down, it's light, you can land on a very short runway. you just can't take off again unless you have got a very small fuel load to go a short distance. >> than...