Us along with our panel as we watch this, the idea this search might have to be stopped for a given length of time, its not something we certainly have never heard of. We heard that before with air France Flight 447, that the flight had already been found. But were way early on that. Were not i dont think for a moment were going to be talking about stopping at any time soon. Remembering the Southern Hemisphere winter, its coming into fall now, then winter will be coming along shortly. I think were some way off. Id be very surprised if hes going to announce hes bringing friends home tomorrow. Absolutely once winter arrives in the Southern Hemisphere and depths of winter, you wont find them going out. It would be too dangerous with the planes and it would be fruitless. They will do what they did with 447, regroup and look at the evidence and set up a new plan for where theyre going to start. David, i mean, can this
debris amei mean, some of it would sink after a certain amount of time. W
secure it at some point. that s going to take an awful lot of apparatus and clearly they want to make sure there s no debris that s sitting out on the runway. they want to clear any pieces of wreckage, if anything fell off the plane, from a nut, bolt to something considerably bigger than that. they need to get all of that picked up so another aircraft doesn t its engines don t ingest that material and cause a significant engine damage. so after any incident like this there is a very long list of issues and protocols they need to work through, the priority is making sure everybody safe is taken care of and securing the scene and ensuring that they ve got everything picked up and out of the way. with us now is tom bund a retired airline captain and aviation expert joining us by
debris amei mean, some of it would sink after a certain amount of time. what is floating will stay floating for longer than you might expect. the bottom of the cargo compartment, which is a green zinc chromate color. one part of debris is said to be green? yes, which is fairly unique to that aircraft. typically they re painted white and have a different color inside. this aircraft doesn t, it s green. it s a honeycomb structure, it has a sealed epoxyed together, which has sealed air compartments inside it. if it s floating, it s likely to continue to float but certainly not through the winter. and we re anticipating this press conference getting started any time soon.