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A lot more fuel burned than if you're up at altitude. >> yeah. you're going to increase your fuel burn by anywhere between 40 and 50% at that altitude. so your weight is going to be decreased with the higher speed. >> so we know that this search area has been pushed back by about 700 miles to the northeast. does this seem to fit with an aircraft doing 400 knots at what altitude? >> well, even with all the stuff we don't know, it does make sense. but to get a definite answer we would have to know the conditions that were existing at that time. >> i guess the short answer is we've run it through...

>> this will remain at somewhat an exact science i don't have exact figures of speed but this is estimated speed between south china sea and straight of malaka. >> human control of the plane beyond a certain point? >> aassumption is that it was traveling at a chose to constant speed we reasonably know the aircraft continued to travel as we bring together the team two sets of data. from hulling of the satellite that can give the specified time and aircraft which we rely on the likely performance of the aircraft and matching two sets of data to get points where the

>> this will remain a somewhat inexact science. i don't know the exact figures of the estimated speed, but this was an estimate between the south china sea in the strait of malacca. a range of assessments have been made about likely speed thereafter. >> no human control of the plane beyond a certain point? >> the aircraft was traveling at a constant or close to constant speed. the reason we know the aircraft continued to trouble is that we are bringing together, we and the international investor activity income are bringing in two sets of data, the data from the satellite that can give the arc...

Know more than what we're hearing about, because it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. >> you know, there has been a lot of talk, speculation in the media over the last week or so. but then when you hear the actual people involved with this, talk about how they came to the analysis that they're releasing it does seem like speculation. i mean, they're essentially guessing at the speed. they're guessing at what they think the aircraft should do. they don't know if it was on auto pilot or human control. the speed could vary, that would radically change search areas. so within the pool of inv...

And these turns could have been over just coincidental with way points that -- >> so let's talk about what we don't know. we don't know if it was under human control or on auto pilot. we don't really know the altitude that the plane was flying at, right? >> that was my point. but if -- i mean, let's get rid of the 12,000 feet scenario just for the purposes of this. if it stays at an altitude of 35 -- over 35,000 feet then you're talking about that higher fuel burn, aren't you, captain. and you're talking about increasing -- where it came down. >> if it is a higher speed, i'm still not convince...