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I'm sure mr. young would have a comment on this as well. this is an attempted search, a very large area. surface debris will give us an indication of where the main aircraft wreckage is likely to be. this has a long way to go yet. >> there were indications that the plane had changed course several times. this was one of the reasons that foul play was suggested. can you explain the current thinking on that. >> the radar data i was talking about was related to that, initial stages where there was some changing of the aircraft. the best assessment from there on in is that the aircraft headed sout...

Should under line. i'm sure mr. young would have a comment on this. this is an attempt to search a very large area. for surface debris which would give us an indication of where the main aircraft wreckage is likely to be. this has a long way to go, yes. >> gentlemen there are indications that the plane changed course several times z this was what one of the reasons that foul play was suggested can you explain the current thinking? is that still the belief? >> the radar data i was talking about is related to that initial stages there was some changing of course of the aircraft. best assessment ...

Down off the coast of south america and that ended up out in the middle of the atlantic ocean there, the surface debris was spread out mainly on a trail of three miles, a very limited scope compared to anything we're talking about here, and when they finally went down and did the side scan sonar and found the debris, it would have covered a few football fields, the actual thing you're looking for where the data recorders are and everything else. let me bring it out and thrust it out in the room. we'll drop that down on one of these search areas we're talking about, and look at this. it's not t...

Pull those surface ships out of there. that's a call that the coordinators are going to have to look at for the safety of the surface ships. the aircraft might be able to continue to do a surface search and you might have to make the call to, to delay the search until the seasonal conditions change. that's a call that they made for the air france. >> that you were involved in the recovery event. >> i was involved in the twa recovery. but in the air france when they made that decision twice. they did know that the aircraft was on the bottom in air france. we don't know that for sure in this cas...

Currents and wind that's happened, and you're going to look at the size of that aircraft debris and determine how fast it would have drifted and that sort of thing and work your way backwards. >> are the currents in this particular search area which are actually quite large but generally are the currents in this area strong enough to move heavy parts of this plane, or is it only the, sort of the surface debris or just under the surface debris that's moving? >> well, i'm not really sure anybody really knows all the answers to that question because so many things on the surface, depending how mu...