the statement is less than clear. by using the word, the most credible lead to where the debris may be located. they know that we will interpret that as being a subsequent drift to where the plane would have gone down 20 odd days ago. we know one of the biggest issues they re going to have in this is reverse engineering. so david is spot-on. the fact that they have shifted the debris zone means that not only do they believe the debris zone is 600, 700 miles to the northeast, then the impact area is even further off than that, because of the way things have moved. mary, at the end of this day, the new search area, 123,000 square miles, is still a massive area to be looking at. it s still a massive amount of area and to me it seems like they re starting over.
debris field, and the satellite imagery is helpful, but i have to caution not to be too optimistic until we actually get visual confirmation. once you do, our oceanagraphers reverse plot and that will help us determine a much more specific point where this plane may have crash landed. commander marks, help me understand this, because i m an idiot in science and this kind of thing. but for days now, we ve been hearing about satellite data from a variety of different countries showing in one case 122 pieces of debris, whatever it may be, but multiple sightings of debris in the water. i assume those had relatively specific coordinates, and that s where the and that s where your efforts, the australian,
flight plan of malaysian airlines flight 370 that disappeared this weekend before these pictures were taken. these pictured posted by the chinese government today have raised hopes that if that picture does show debris related to the plane crash it might lead people searching for evidence of what happened to the plane, to a potential recovery site. i should tell you the chinese government has not made any assertions that this picture of is debris. they are drawing no conclusions about whether this has anything to do with the disappearance of the plane. senior u.s. officials tell nbc news tonight they have no information on this imagery either, in terms of corroborating what it is we re looking at here, or the crucial question of whether or not it has anything to do with that missing plane the new image is raising hopes at least that it might turn out to be a lead in terms of finding out where that
flight plan of malaysian airlines flight 370 that disappeared this weekend before these pictures were taken. these pictured posted by the chinese government today have raised hopes that if that picture does show debris related to the plane crash it might lead people searching for evidence of what happened to the plane, to a potential recovery site. i should tell you the chinese government has not made any assertions that this picture of is debris. they are drawing no conclusions about whether this has anything to do with the disappearance of the plane. senior u.s. officials tell nbc news tonight they have no information on this imagery either, in terms of corroborating what it is we re looking at here, or the crucial question of whether or not it has anything to do with that missing plane the new image is raising hopes at least that it
chinese government today have raised hopes that if that picture does show debris related to the plane crash it might lead people searching for evidence of what happened to the plane, to a potential recovery site. i should tell you the chinese government has not made any assertions that this picture of is debris. they are drawing no conclusions about whether this has anything to do with the disappearance of the plane. senior u.s. officials tell nbc news tonight they have no information on this imagery either, in terms of corroborating what it is we re looking at here, or the crucial question of whether or not it has anything to do with that missing plane the new image is raising hopes at least that it might turn out to be a lead in terms of finding out where that plane might be, which has to be the first order of business and then the second question, if it s proven to come down in a way that has put its wreckage in the sea the second question is figuring out what might have brought tha