that could be that s very likely to have been or could be material that exploded and went up into the explosion, and is then coming down from with the fireball that we saw, rather than or it could be, god forbid, pieces of the plane that followed on from it falling out of the sky. but my initial thinking would be it s part of the explosion that went up with the fireball. jeff weise, aviation analyst and columnist, joining us. it s good to have you with us. we haven t talked to you yet. what are your thoughts seeing this video? my first reaction was utter increduli incredulity, the same type of aircraft from the same carrier within a matter of months. you re referencing the other flight right, 370. that remains a mystery. still don t know what happened to it, who did what, when and
just suspect. i m not saying it s not a missile, rick. i m just saying it s suspect to me, because if there is something significant enough in a missile or any kind of impact to that aircraft, it would have caused some sort of fire on board, whether it was a true impact or whether it was radar exploded like you said. either way, something to bring the aircraft down would have started some kind of smoke, some kind of fire, if the engines were out, in my mind. of course, i m not a military expert such as you. jeff, your thoughts. i wanted to point out there is a bit of a historical precedent here, 1983, soviet fighter shot down a korean airlines 747. and in this case you saw the plane stay aloft for a while. the pilots lost control of the tail so weren t able to maintain the correct pitch and went one up and down and eventually crash. miles o brien joining us, aviation analyst. what do you make of david s thoughts? and, again, david raises i think the most important point here,
the season. and that s going to be a real problem. it s sort of one step forward, ten steps back. because these waves and these conditions, you cannot you can t see, which is what they re still trying to do, find a debris field and have a visual. 8.5 meters is 25 feet. these are waves that are like buildings. like trying to peek through the streets of manhattan. it s horrendous and makes it impossible to go even further, if they were to find a debris field than to launch any. so if you were doing logistics on something like this, and you had someone like colonel kay with a fleet of aircra aircraft, how would the two of you, and maybe you weigh in on this. how would you coordinate with the boats on the surface, if you can be, say, upwards of 2 to 500 feet above them? yeah. i think one of the problems you ve got here is the temperamental nature of the weather. talking about the low mist fog conditions. usually fog bank up to 500 feet and you can have beautiful, clear skies abov
assets, and increasing the number of technical and subject matter experts. on the assets deployed, two korean aircraft left the airport for perth this morning to help the multinational search operation. no flights from perth to the search area took place today due to bad weather. six chinese ships are currently in the search area. they are expected to arrive within the vicinity of mh-370 s last known position by tomorrow morning. this ship includes the icebreaker zulan. hsas success is also currently in the search area. the person pinger locator, an instrument that can help find the black box, is currently on route to perth and will arrive tomorrow. the system will be fitted into the australian ship ocean shield, which is due to dock in
aircra aircraft. there is evidence of a partial handshake between the aircraft and ground station at 0009 utc. this is not fully understood and needs ongoing work. no response was received from the aircraft at 0115 utc, when the ground earth station sent the next logon-log-off message, indicating that the aircraft was no longer logged on to the network. therefore, some time between 0011 utc and 0115 utc, the aircraft was no longer able to communicate with the ground station. this is consistent with the maximum endurance of the aircraft. this analysis by inmarsat forms the basis for further study to attempt to determine the final position of the aircraft. accordingly, the malaysian investigation has set up an international working group