any data? we need to, you know, not just get this whole array of information from different people and then denies. and we need to go back to the last information that i i think we know about it. i think we know, jon. you re a pilot, you probably know more about this than i do, but we need to go back there, and we need to be doing all kinds of things. we need to be calculating the drifts, you know? the tides, all that stuff. you may remember, jon, on twa flight 800 the slick was 10 miles wide the morning when first light came. and it was only a few days later we found pieces of the airplane down in cape may and as far up as nantucket. so, you know, we need to gets a sets out there that can hear the pinger, you know? we need to get u.s. navy assets and aviation and surface assets out there as soon as possible. jon: so you are presuming that this thing is in the water, is not on land somewhere at some hidden airport? i m not assuming anything, jon.
journal reported. whenever there are new details they must be corroborated. today s media reports that boeing specifically about the data. as far as rolls-royce and boeing are concerned, those reports are inaccurate. reporter: while the dimensions much these objects seen in the chinese satellite images are consistent with the wing and tail dimensions of a 777, the malaysian authorities are also saying a surveillance aircraft went out this morning and could not locate the debris. now they say the chinese government is stating that the images were posted in error. these bizarre developments come as a recent warning from the faa about the boeing 777 and a potential weak spot are drawing new scrutiny. this is an airworthiness directive also known as an ad, it ordered checks on u.s. registered 777s after problems were reported near a satellite antenna. this ad reads in part, quote,
250 sweet square maybe, it s a little bit longer than that. not quite as wide. yes, it s insignificant when you put it into the ocean. it s going to be a difficult task to find it if, in fact, it is in the water. and having the antisubmarine aircraft dispatched to help listen for the sonar bleeps, for the pinger on the flight data recorder, that will help a lot pinpoint it down if we get lucky and it is pinging away. but there s just so much misinformation and so much that we don t know jon: right. and, you know, we can t lose sight of the fact that there s a timeline for everything. and although we re looking, it s reported that the ntsb and others are looking at this data that has come from rolls royce. rolls royce is not exactly saying this is the most accurate description of tear data. so of their data. so we have to match it up.
i m joined by the former ntsb investigator and he was in charge of the agency s go team for nearly ten years. thank you for being with us. it s been a long past couple of days for you. as an investigator what are your questions given the fact that we had the two full days of searching. it s been called off until daylight and no detection of anything so far. well, there s a question that i have. we talked about with mh 370 the data burst that would go by way of satellite back down to the airline. nobody has talked about the data that came off the a-card to supplement the radar data we have in looking for an exact place to focus the search effort. that s a question i would be asking right now. to see if they can t hone down the search area. with the weather limitations they have they don t have the time really to expend a lot of resources searching the entire java sea. you re saying that will
the private sector. and the v.a., i think the depth of this scandal, the lesson of this scandal is just that. if you want to know where we re headed as a country with health care, take a look at the v.a., because this is the course that has been charted if we don t change it. jennifer griffin was telling us yesterday, this was on the books. it could have been implemented any time. as officer luttrell said to us last week, if you just handed us a card when we got out and say this is what you use, you can go wherever you want to go especially if you re in a rural area, not near a v.a. facility, this whole thing could have been alleviated to the point where at least the backlogs wouldn t be as overwhelming as they are right now. now they are getting word of a program that has been around since the late 1990 s. how much can you take for granted, those with the most patient hearts,