even what sort of stresses were placed on that out ter aircraft? absolutely. because you can see the way any metal or any items are bent. this is the absolute art of aircraft investigation. the ntsb are brilliant at it. the uk and the france, australians are all very talented and experienced at doing it. the malaysians, incidentally, this is almost certainly going to be a malaysian investigation. it is an international waters, which becomes the state of occurrence. there isn t one. therefore, the investigation is held by the state of operator, state of registry, in both cases, that is malaysia. let s bring in bobby skoly, a retired navy captain, consultant with maritime diving and salvage, spent a lot of time in the water. bobby, in terms of the focus
now, how critical is it to get those pieces of debris as quickly as possible? is that you are a lot of concern that over given with each day that passes, the debris could sink? yes. we really need to be focused, get those ships out there in that debris field, in that part of the ocean and try to get those eyes on any debris that we can find before that debris sinks and we lose that part of this search forever. a lot of that aircraft debris will sink, will float for a long time. with twa flight 800, we found a lot did end up on the shore of long island, of course. so some of this debris may go on forever and end up washing ashore eventually but by that time, it is just too late for the investigation. we want to find it now so we can
wrong. you paid your money and take your choice on this one, wolf. this is the sort of discrepancy that frequently happens in aircraft investigations, but never quite like this when it s something as fundamental with such information that goes to the heart of an investigation that already seems to be well and truly off track. malaysian authorities in kuala lumpur, as you know, they re also suggesting the wall street journal report is not accurate. they say they ve seen no evidence that the plane kept flying for hours. but what more are we hearing from aviation investigators in mala malaysia? what we re hearing from them is that first of all we have this idea that the chinese pictures let s go to the chinese pictures. firstly, apparently they were delayed in their publication because the chinese authorities were reorbiting the satellite or moving the satellite to get better telemetry, get a better reading on it. secondly, they were released by
stock. it s a needle in a field full of haystacks. the search areas doubled in the last day which is not the direction it should be going in. this is what s unusual about this situation, usually the stage in an aircraft investigation, they have a lot more to go on. even with air france, they knew within a few days more or less where they had been. this is really unprecedented. is that specifically because the transponder for whatever reason stopped tran pond issing? yes, and he don t know why that happened. i think the real question now is, why are we still relying on 1960s era technology to find this? basically it boils down now to a search for the black boxes that contain really what will be the most important bit of information in sorting out what happened to this. and that s well, who knows,
stock. it s a needle in a field full of haystacks. the search areas doubled in the last day which is not the direction it should be going in. this is what s unusual about this situation, usually the stage in an aircraft investigation, they have a lot more to go on. even with air france, they knew within a few days more or less where they had been. this is really unprecedented. is that specifically because the transponder for whatever reason stopped tran pond issing? yes, and he don t know why that happened. i think the real question now is, why are we still relying on 1960s era technology to find this? basically it boils down now to a search for the black boxes that contain really what will be the most important bit of information in sorting out what happened to this.