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Miles an hour. that would have been horrific. >> certainly, if there were life rafts and there have been some sort of landing intact and people fighting for survival, if that were not the case and the plane had landed there and there were no survivors, do you think debris from that would also have been scattered now and be totally nonlocatable? >> well, i don't know if it's nonlocatable or not. we go and take a look where the currents were, and the currents are moved a little bit by the wind, but if anything was sticking out of the water, say a wing tip, that's the wind would blow that like a ...

One plane floating in a vast ocean? at the end of march, the search area was roughly 123,000 square miles. which is little bigger than the state of new mexico. now, let's say the plane is a rectangle. nose to tail. it's about 209 feet. and wing tip to wing tip, it's 200 feet. so the square footage of a 777 is about 41,800 square feet. so to make this simpler, let's scale it down using mathematics and algebra. if the search area was, say, the empire state building, it's roughly like finding your wallet somewhere in the skyscraper. or let's say that search area is a football field. then it's lik...

Of flight 447, it was the wing tip that was easier to spot. >> and you saw the objects there the crews pulled out of the water there, and not too much speculation, but does it look too much like an aircraft there? >> well shgs s, it is hard to t. to me, we were initially talking before the break, that it was currency to me, but it could very well be one of the seatback, you know, exit manuals. it is possible. >> that or a magazine, page from a magazine or anything. >> yes, and it which still could be a part of the airplane. >> really? >> well, a magazine may be, you know, in-flight magazine ma...

Look suspicious enough, and different enough that there might be a chance and we see the objects that are white, orange, red, blue, and all of these have been marked and the ships will try to locate them, because it is one thing to take a picture from the airplane, but another to have them, and have the experts s take a look at them see if there is a connection to the flight 370. we just don't know. >> thank you, will ripley. joining me is aviation analyst miles o'brien, and cnn aviation analyst rob mccallum as well. and let me start with you, rob. are there search areas that are easier to fin...

You want to touch nose high. according to the books, you want to land on the crest of any waves. it depends. this is just a rough, general description. the sea state, the winds, this is a very big part. we don't know that. >> it does. clearly, if it is a flat call motion, that's terrific. if you are dealing with 18-foot waves, that is a real problem. if you are going down, you have no choice. the weather is what the weather is. we should point out the miracles on the hudson, the text book example. that was airbus. >> which is a much smaller plane. this is a jumbo jet compared to that. you are ...