about 500 islands too. one of the big questions you have been sdhag is a gosking iss the bits of information come in, even if it were true and the plane went that way, could it do so unnoticed and could it wind up in another part of the sea? this is a satellite image. there two air fields in the andamans that are big enough for a plane like this to land. this is looked after by the indian air force. the other one i want to bring in is from a different air field. from an area called port blair that is supported by the indian navy. 11,000 foot runway. a plane the size of a 777 needs about 4,000 feet to land and 6,000 feet to take off. could it do it from a runway like this?
it could. look at all the planes and the fact that the military is involved. do you get a plane like this 200 feet end to end and side to side into an area like that and land it it safely with nobody noticing? i don t think you do. even if you talk about the turbo fan engines on a plane like this, the turbo jets, they are quieter than engineers were 40 years ago, but that s in the realm of jet engines. they are pretty noisy. not something that sneaks through the neighborhood like a stealth fighter. this is a big commercial jechlt the idea that you fly over an area lo like that and nobody notices, that s not happening. most of the islands are uninhabited and small. could a plane like this passover an area like that and sadly go into the ocean? it could and maybe noib would notice assaulting it got past
be taken into consideration during this search. this area is bigger than the entire north atlantic. that s difficult enough above the water, but under the water it s a lifetime undertaking to search that kind of an area. the one thing i think we should be doing now is looking in the gulf of thailand if there is interest in the search. knowing where the plane isn t is important. we can check that off. we don t need to spent more time on the surface if it s not on the floor of the island. the other thing is we need to collect meteor logical data. the waves. if we do find in the water some bits of debris, it has to be back tracked to give us that x marks the spot on the sea surface. what are the conditions, explain it to us in the indian ocean. does that affect the search in terms of where the possible
they are moving the assets and the cost, i suspect they have an area they want to search. did someone deliberately turn off the plane s communication systems? we don t know. it s possible to have a cascading fire melt down of the system that you lose the navigation systems and lose communications and tron respoan. we know it s shut down. 1:21 a.m. 14 minutes after the plaen s data reporting system shut down, the communications were shut down manually. that s why i ask you that we. not necessarily. failure modes, things happen and it s possible. you can t rule it out. i wanted to pick you up on this point. an interesting point. on way points, you are much more experienced and you have flown and you know there is as many way points as you there as you
hours. they reported the plane flew in established air corridors deliberately following so-called way points towards the islands. it could suggest or what s left of it well into the indian ocean to the west of malaysia. this area soon to be searched by a u.s. destroyer. chinese researchers say they recorded a sea floor event, a reading that is consistent with an airplane crash. it happened about an hour to an hour after the plane s last sighting on radar. that would put the jet back on the other side of the malaysian peninsula. let s go to the west now. we are going to dedicate the next two hours to covering every angle of this story, putting all the new reports to the experts. let s start now with the plane that was deliberately flown off course towards the andamani