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there's a potential for rotation. a look where it is. it is central florida. tornado warning for central brevard, southeast orange and northeast osceola counties. this is going from now until 3:10 at this point. these storms are moving eastward at about 40 miles per hour. tornado watch issued. you can see, this is the watch delineated here from tampa and including all of central florida saying the potential is there for tornadoes. you can see this very strong line, but here in this purple, this is tornado warning, and this is quite different. more severe, and for a shorter period of time looking out. in this case, an hour, actually. so you can see. st. cloud, merit island, some of these cities kind of in this, cape canaveral. big cities. also the orlando international airport. cape canaveral, jetty park, lake kno nona and cocoa beach and you can see a line of storms pushing
that. i think the case is made. ironically what we're seeing now in the case of this malaysian incident is that the plane was able to fly out long distances over water on two engines with no one apparently conscience in side of it. you could say looking at it that way prooch of thesis. >> i was going to raise that point. if something catastrophic happened to one or even two of the engines, that plane would have siff simply stopped flying sooner, perhaps when off radar at that point. >> the point about it, i can make, which is that this plane was very largely, technically, intact for the whole time that it flew over that water. what was not intact was something that happened in the early stages of the flight, which somehow left it able to do that. so in all of its critical systems, the engeniines and they the other engines it was
when the air pressurized air in the plane gushes out into explosive force. those inside the plane need to get to an oxygen mask immediately or they suffer badly from asphyxia. on the two test flights. on one of the test flights, maximum altitude, 43,000 feet and the pilot just got it down, and even then, four of the test crew had to be taken to hospital to be treated for in diving terms called the bends, because they didn't get to their oxygen masks in time. now, it's very fortunate that that happened at that stage in the flight test program, and it exposed a flaw in a valve in the air conditioning system in the belly of the plane. that was rectified then, and there's been no recurrence of that since, but this simply shows to you that there was no redundancy for that failure. it was call add single point facial, highly unusual and no backup. and officers ensured since that can't be repeated. the whole purpose of test
there's been a question as to the moment that plane checked in and essentially said, seemed to be locating itself between two different airports. what does that suggest to you? >> well -- >> were they trying to perhaps think in their mind that they needed to land? >> yes, absolutely. that's always been my contention, because everything was normal up until that's famous good night point and then they realized a problem was generated. smelled something, go with the smoke theory or toxic fume theory. they said we have a serious enough situation to head back to diversion airport and the captain would have said, i've got the airplane which it was his leg anyhow, and the copilot would have been doing a check list. the weight point would the have been entered. probably flying this route so much that he knew by memory what particular airport he wanted to go to, and he turned, put it into the flight management computer and the airplane turned that direction on autopilot. >> and, tim i don't want to let go before we answer this quick
in new york via skype. clive, why wasn't this plane in your opinion, safe for long flights, given that this is a half billion dollar plane? one of the most sophisticated planes flying? >> yes, i'm actually not saying that. i'm saying it had to prove it was safe. it was designed from the beginning to prove something at the time, in the early 1990s. it was a very unorthodox idea i amongst aviation experts, which is that you could take a very large plane, holding 300 or more people, and fly it over long distances, over the ocean, and on only two engines. and the critical thing here is, how far away would that plane be from the nearest landing strip if one of the engines went out? so the regulations gag by sbega saying no further than 60 minutes away and it's now up to over five hours. it's gone up to that level because the 777 has really been the proving point that it was