followed, when vietnamese air traffic control told the malaysians, we don t have your plane, what was the reaction? how swift was it? there were some indications it was not until this plane was supposed to be rolling up to the gate in beijing that an actual emergency call was issued. the families didn t find out that their loved ones were missing until they didn t arrive in beijing. fully after that, only an hour after that, did the news become public. anderson? certainly, a lot of questions about the timing of all this. jim clancy, i appreciate it. life in kuala lumpur. we are going to take another short break. when we come back, i want to go to kate bolduan in perth, australia, what is happening right now, what assets are in place. it is 11:40 p.m. on perth. what is going to happen at first light on tuesday morning. we ll be right back.
let s dig deeper into the technology used to determine the fate of flight 370. joining us is ken christensen. what is your reaction? you just heard my interview in which he suggests most likely the plane went down in the southern indian ocean based on the new analysis that they have come up with. what is your reaction when you hear that? i agree and i think what we have available certainly points in that direction. again, i think it s important and ships are out there now and search teams are out there now, their most immediate concern is to get to one of those items and physically take it out of the ocean and look at it and see if that in fact is a piece of that
only if there was an on-board fire and if it was in the location that this debris was also located, we are going to see soot marks and possibly melted metal. also, the characteristic of how the airplane hit the water. was it a controlled dissent versus a catastrophic nose-down dissent. we will be able to tell that by looking at the wreckage and looking at the deformity, how not only it is compressed but how it is torn and so forth. those types of analysis will go a long way to better understanding how the airplane impacted the water and what might have been going on just prior to that impact, getting the boxes will help complete the story without question. there is potentially some valuable information here. s sean, if a plane did run o of water, how would it enter the water? do we know? no, we don t.
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able to say over a number of hours that the plane was at a fairly constant altitude. we have assumed, with guidance from boeing, a speed of about 350 knots, which would be the automatic pilot speed. and we have assumed the range based on what malaysians said the plane was fueled up for, plus a safety margin. but i can t speak to if the plane varied its speed. i can t speak to if the plane varied its altitude over time. i think most of those changes are off of malaysian radar. the early stage of this crisis. so i think you would have to talk to the malaysians about their readings of radar and perhaps primary military radar. so just to recap, chris, i just want to be resize. a lot is at stake right now. your analysis, based on the new information you have, the new technology, the handshakes, the pings, whatever you want to call it, is that most likely, the plane went into the southern indian ocean someplace, did not go into central asia, that northern arc, if you will.