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Helicopter pilot with the british royal air force, with experience in flying around the world. tim, at which stage in regard to the malaysian flight with someone of your expertise get involved. of course, the breaking news this morning, is the satellite i am imagery. is that enough for you to be in the case? >> i think we need to find more surface debris so we can calculate a better search. we are looking at water depth of 3,000 meters to 5,000 meters. the challenge is enormous. the search based on one satellite image could take years. >> how would it compare to your work with regard to air fr...

Probable impact point, it is over 3,000 miles of sea drift it would have had to undergo. the pictures of the part look totally covered with barnacles and other organisms so it was in the water for a long time. it is the missing triple seven it is over a year it's been drifting most likely. >> anthony roman, the search now, how do you think they should concentrate their efforts with this information? >> i think the primary search area was approximately 46,000 square miles. in 20,000 feet of ocean with a mountainous bottom. i think that will remain the same. they have completed 21,000 miles of t...

Get confirmation that it's associated with the 777 aircraft and probably mh-370 then we will know based on drift modelling of surface debris where it was likely to end up that this is very likely associated with the search area that we are currently focusing on. >> reporter: so that search area is a vast area. of course we're talking about the indian ocean. within that ocean, so far they've searched an area half the size of the state of pennsylvania. and they are not stopping. they could go on for up to a year. obviously, they hope that they're going to find wreckage before that. they've alrea...

Needle in a haystack but we're very fortunate in this case that we have shallow waters. about 100 to 400 feet deep. so the chances are pretty high 450er. here. >> the fact they've been able to find surface debris gives them a better idea where the actual black boxes are going to be located subsea. air france they had surface degree within a couple days but it still took them two years to find the black boxes. >> absolutely. well said. i have a map on -- an article on wrote on linkedin.com that showed we have had disappearances of aircraft, about 80 of them and we've only found 4. that includes...

Launching this vehicle. before send it down. there have been no fresh pings, no fresh sounds since last tuesday, so they decided they might as well go ahead and launch this search, but the area they're looking at 15 square miles initially, is very big, and this vehicle works at walking pace. this is an enormous challenge, and angus houston, the coordinator here, was cautious in describing how this works and the likelihood of any speedy results. he also said but they had spotted an oil slick some five kilometers -- that's about two and a half miles -- down stream from where they believed the ai...