was outside of the designated search zone, but they ve been unable to do so to get any further details of what exactly they found. and so that s something that they re waiting to hear from. they ve been in contact with the chinese capital, with beijing, to see if they can get any additional information as well. at the moment what the international sort of coordination effort here is saying is that they re considering sending assets, airplanes, in fact, to the area to follow up on what the chinese have detected, but at the moment they haven t made that decision to do that. they ll be coming in early in the morning and making that decision. at the same time the australian led mission saying they re aware of what the chinese have detected, saying it is consist wept a black box flight recorder and they re aware of that second incidence as well, which we shouldn t forget about, chinese airplane spotting what they say are white objects relatively close to where they detected those pulses as
never find the black boxes. and without them, we may never know what happened. tom, the satellite photography is amazing to me, the fact that so many countries, including thailand have this kind of technology. w have we yet had an airplane spotting of what was picked up on the satellites yet? of all these efforts through all these days. no. no? nope. and in fact we ve had individual planes and pilots say they thought they see something, but they re whipping by at 200 knots per hour. by the time they come around again to try to get a better visual on it, they lose it. i mean, you re literally talk about this weather here is so atrocious that you re talking about waves of 10 to 30 feet high, rolling whitecaps. and you think you see something and your mind starts playing tricks on you. and then it s lost in the sea of white caps. it s just so, so difficult to spot something when you re 300 feet up. that s the that s as low as they re going, 300 feet. and still 300 feet to try
longer holds water. the whole thing really doesn t make any sense. and if this is the plane, if these are pieces of debris about as far south as you could go before you exhaust the fuel in the plane and your engines run out and you literally do a nosedive into the water, then it would appear this plane was on autopilot. so the same question we were asking last night, was the crew dead? was everybody in the back, all the passengers dead? we simply don t know. and the last point about this that is critical is that we ve only got about nine days left of battery life on those underwater pingers attached to the black boxes. if they don t find the debris, or even more importantly, if they don t find the wreckage, presumed wreckage location to listen for the black boxes, we may never find the wreckage and never find the black boxes. and without them, we may never know what happened. tom, the satellite photography is amazing to me, the fact that so many countries, including thailand have thi