originally and they looked at the calculations of the air speed and then they matched it from the satellite photos, the original one came from the french, my sources told me. and they said it couldn t have possibly because if the airplane was at this speed. they did some re-calculation, saying if the airplane was going this speed it was in this area maybe. i realize we re running out of time, those batteries and the black boxes probably only have another ten days left before they go dead. captain nash, i want to ask you, because general mcinerney will be here in a bit. he thinks the original search area reignites some of his suspicions about the northern area, and why the plane didn t go south. he questions why the inmarsat data sent us south to begin with. do you think this is a legitimate question, that we should be questioning inmarsat s
captain. great to have you, captain nash. thank you. it s hard to believe we ve been talking about this for three weeks. now they have this new search. i m going to go a little off course to ask you this first. about the black box because time is ticking away literally. it only has a week or less if it performs as specified to give off the ping and give the answers it may hold. why is two hours enough? initially the ntsb told me two former chairmen it was 30 minutes. they fought hard to get it extended for two hours but it records oaf itself. are the last two hours before a potential crash the most significant? there are two recorders in the aircraft. one is the cockpit voice recorder which has a 2 1/2 hour play. what it does is loops over itself. that is an event recorder.
the calculations of the air speed and then they matched it from the satellite photos, the original one came from the french, my sources told me. and they said it couldn t have possibly because if the airplane was at this speed. they did some re-calculation, saying if the airplane was going this speed it was in this area maybe. i realize we re running out of time, those batteries and the black boxes probably only have another ten days left before they go dead. captain nash, i want to ask you, because general mcinerney will be here in a bit. he thinks the original search area reignites some of his suspicions about the northern area, and why the plane didn t go south. he questions why the inmarsat data sent us south to begin with. do you think this is a legitimate question, that we should be questioning inmarsat s
welcome back. thanks for spending part of your afternoon with us. i want to bring an update on the hunt for malaysia airlines flight 370 entering its fourth week. investigators focusing on another area on the indian ocean. the search has moved 700 miles north. when they got new information that suggested the plane actually traveled faster than first thought. there are chinese and australian search planes. they spotted debris today they thought could be from the plane. there is no way to know for sure. some of the objects recovered were not from the plane. let me confirm that breaking today. at least three objects ended up to not be malaysia air 370. i want to welcome as well to talk about the long and frustrating search, chuck nash, a pilot, retired u.s. navy
retrieve some of that debris from the ocean and analyze it and see if, in fact, it s aircraft structure and if it s 777 structure, we re not going to know for sure. but i think the malaysian government, given all of the pressures of having the families there and everything, i think they want to this up sooner rather than later. but the rest of us should continue to monitor this and do everything we can to really define that is the site and it s not just a convenient way out. no doubt. as we said earlier looking at the map, they need to have physical debris they can get serial numbers off of or really positive identifying characteristics so they can know 100% it is indeed the plane. and even then, captain nash, then the other questions come back to the front of your mind. was it the hijacking? was it a suicide mission? because each one of those possibilities has so much mystery surrounding it in terms of holes that you can poke in that theory.