here. point it out to the viewers, what is a flaperon what does it do and what does it do on the wing? the flaperon you can find on these two bigger structures. reporter: in the middle? in the middle. a flaperon is a combination of flaps and an aileron which sits on the outer edge of the wing. it controls the roll of the aircraft and the flaps control the aircraft being able to fly at greatest lift at lower speeds. reporter: how important is it to an aircraft of this size? it s fairly important because it extends off from the wing and like the flaps creates a greater lift at a lower speed. reporter: we ve brought one here at eye level so we can show our viewers, we have an expert here who knows a lot about this. investigators are going to try to tie that debris back to the missing flight 370. how do they do that? on any component you can
which rolls the plane to the left and right. and then it has a series of flaps that come down and extend the wing surface which e longigates slong gat longigate longigate. you see that in landing and take off? it does. now the flaperon is a combination of the flap and the aileron. the flap helps it go slower. the aileron helps it go left and right. the flaperon is a smaller piece of the wing. when they are rolling left to right will act as an aileron. when they are landing it will act as an aileron and a flap. in terms of the black boxes, we know they send out a signal.
expert. it was certainly all over the map. it was a wide turn but it s you can make a coordinated turn that the passengers won t feel in a small air space. the key is a coordinated turn where you use the aileron and the rudder. and it looks questionable to me. david,let follow up on what mary is talking about. what do you think? i don t have any idea where the map came from. it disregards any of the facts we know already and asserts facts we don t know exist. this path is based on speculation and innuendo. it s the concept of coming up with a conclusion or theory and placing the facts in place to support your conclusion or theory.