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Fox since the flight disappeared, especially with that false alarm with the chinese satellite images, that the type of debris that would survive an impact into the ocean, would be the large sections of the aircraft. so the wing span, which is about 210 feet, and then that tail section which would be the horizontal stabilizer, as well as the vertical fin. and finally, i would just say that as you rightly point out, the weather may be one of the biggest unknowables in this situation. it seems to have made it harder to discern what exactly has shown up in that section of the ocean by the satellit...

Area and it was not just the radar data or signals data. but they also factored in things such as the weather, the fuel, and how long a triple 7 could glide without any power. they took all of these things, factored them in, and they came out with this new refocused search area southwest of perth. a map of this area was released late yesterday by the pentagon. and significantly not only a targeted search area, but also a secondary drift area, and it designated the drift area as about a week after the crash. we also understood, and this was confirmed at the news conference, that there was a ref...

Reach this area, would have been on the extremes of this jet's range. >> yes, on the extreme. but also the australians have been releasing a lot of information over the last few day, showing where they've been searching and they've been very straight about what they've been up to. they understand that they were searching at the edge of that likely southern arc. so if they hadn't had found that, then i don't think they would have been taking it so seriously and having the australian prime minister standing up in parliament to say that there is a possibility debris has been found. >> john young,...

Fox since the flight disappeared, especially with that false alarm with the chinese satellite images, that the type of debris that would survive an impact into the ocean, would be the large sections of the aircraft. so the wing span, which is about 210 feet, and then that tail section which would be the horizontal stabilizer, as well as the vertical fin. and finally, i would just say that as you rightly point out, the weather may be one of the biggest unknowables in this situation. it seems to have made it harder to discern what exactly has shown up in that section of the ocean by the satellit...

Satellites on that particular area. and then they found these items of interest. first the australian prime minister went to his parliament and said, we have what we believe to be some large pieces. we think it's possible it may be the boeing 777 missing for 12 days. then the authorities came out and gave you a news conference. we'll give you parts of that for those of you who may have missed it. now they have resources on the way and some on site. for more than three hours, they've had a government aircraft above the scene. they're sending three others, which are expected to be there within a...