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About rough weather conditions. tell us a little bit about that. >> well, the navy uses certain aircraft like the p-3 and this p-8 in order to do submarine hunting for the most part. and they are trained to fly at low altitudes because they get close to the water and listen for signs of submarines. now, in this instance, they're being used to try to track either finding the debris field and seeing what it is or even possibly to try and locate these pingers from the black boxes. so the actual flying at 300 feet probably is a little bit lower than they normally do, but i'm sure they're trained t...

Devices. usually we're sitting on it. wouldn't we expect at least one would come to the surface, and something you would be able to find based on the equipment you're describing? >> both the p-3 and the p-8 have the capability of find iing something that small. we have found debris, wooden crates, things like that, of course nothing associated with air wreckage. so we do pick it up on our radar. so it is certainly within the realm of possibility to pick something like that up. and it is just really a matter, it is a huge area. if you take a map of the united states and superimpose that in the ...

However, i should let you know, the p-3 will be flying the mission tomorrow. >> what is the typical sort of turnaround? is it one day off and then so many days on? is there kind of a standard operating procedure, commander? >> every situation is different. this mission is certainly unique. it's really unprecedented. i don't think we have seen anything the scope of this before. we actually have quite a few of these planes. they are based or i should say deployed out of oakinawokinawa,. they fly missions all the way north, north of japan, and all the way south through the east china sea, the sou...

Out to be a debris field from the flight, at least there will be closure. we're still a long way from that. we don't know if the p-3's will get photographs they'll be able to share with us, or if they'll wait until the ships are on site. i know some of the people we've talked to tonight are optimistic, if it does turn out to be the malaysian airplane, that they'll find the black boxes, but i would caution that those are two completely separate things. but if this does turn out to be debris, then a lot of this mystery will have been solved. >> it will. one thing we do not know, is how, if it is...

Plane if i remember correctly with the most advanced technology available. so if it is there, they're going to see it. let me take you back to the earlier searches so you get an idea of how successful this equipment is. when they were in the bay of bengal between the p-3 and the p-8 they picked up more than 400 pieces of debris floating out there in the ocean that they examined. pieces of container ship. it has been very effective in locating debris and very effective in eliminating what they see that has nothing to do with an aircraft. so i believe that we can expect that this technology will...