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However, the surface debris, if this is found to be the debris from mh-370, the surface search could now shift along a linear course that would follow the currents. it would be a monumental task at this point. >> let's go back to this piece of debris. what are the -- what are most of the -- what's the most optimistic reading of what we could possibly determine about the crash just from this one piece? >> well, unfortunately, about all you can determine is the gee om tri of the impact or what happened to the airplane immediately before it had the impact. it's still moves us no closer to determi...

He has written a new book "malaysia airlines flight 307, why it disappeared and why it's only a matter of time before this happens again." david, i want to talk about the issue of time and why it's important. as these days tick off and they don't find the fuselage and they don't find the black boxes, what are they risking in terms of the investigation? is it just a matter of the pings wearing out the batteries? if the pickngs are even going off at all. what are the other issues? bodies -- as sad as its sounds -- decaying. >> well bodies decaying is not that big of an issue at this point other ...

Airlines worldwide got together, formed a task force to try to keep better track of planes over oceans. they're discussing options like trying to make sure you know where a plane is within one nautical mile every 15 minutes. now, over 15 minutes, a plane traveling 500 miles an hour would still move 125 miles. that's still a very large area for planes and ships to search. so they're going to continue discussing that. there's another meeting in march of international airlines. >> from what you've seen has indonesia been capable of conducting this search as effectively as possible? >> well the se...

>> yeah, what they'll do is they'll back-draft on any of the movements of the ocean itself and the direction of the wind. you notice that the debris is south and a little bit east of where they last got a fix on the aircraft. that could have either been from the aircraft turning around or from a stall or it could be just from drift. they'll back-draft up to where that came from, try to get all the surface debris collected first. then at that point start focusing on looking for the beepers themselves, the pingers, the underwater locater beacons themselves to find the black boxes,. subsequent to...

Additional water vehicles. i would guess that they will bring in some more in addition to the blue fin. >> okay. we have heard quite a bit now, thank goodness, could have happened weeks ago, this prime minister interview with richard quest and he told cnn, you know, this search for mh-370 is very, very different from the one that we keep bringing up here, air france flight 447. but in your opinion, in what ways is it similar? what might we be able to learn from 447 in terms of strategy? this stage of the game here? >> the similarities are that it was a relatively large aircraft. but the differ...