jim, does this new information clarify anything for you, especially the actions of the pilots? not really. because i ve got to decide whether or not we re dealing with a hero pilot or a criminal. and i know that sounds like two extremes, but, you know, if he did this on his own, or if he had a if he had a gun in his ear, he could have gone to the limits of that military radar and then gone below and then gone wherever he wanted to. there are a couple of islands out there and all that have substantial runways. so i don t know that i have much more now than i had before because i don t know what to count on. christine densen, the malaysians say france turned over new satellite images today that possibly shows other objects out there. is this a wild goose chase, you think, given the new information or do you think this is a significant breakthrough? i d like to think that it is
target, so, again, you know, really testing the bounds of the equipment. christine, how long before the salt in the water eats away any evidence that may be found on the debris? i would imagine it is a little early now, but the longer this goes on, that becomes a real possibility. absolutely. what is happening 17 days into this is that the debris that we had or we think we have located is still moving around in the water, the waters are churning. there are some storm systems. they re tracking to track that debris and find t the loit. we don t know what the debris is. clearly the longer it is in the water, exposed to the elements, the harder it will make for us to really be able to identify a lot or even find it. there are objects that could very well be sinking as we speak. and that s dependent on the conditions and where, in fact, they are. that s difficulty. christine, i want to ask you
operation. they re using radar equipment, sonar equipment and good old-fashioned eyesight, people lining the side of the planes looking out the window seeing if they can spot the debris picked up by satellites in three different countries, australia, china and france. will ripley, great reporting from kuala lumpur in our breaking news tonight. thank you very much. for our special report, we have a bevy of experts to break down the new radar information on malaysia flight 370. joining me is les abend, a former 777 pilot. a current 777 pilot. aviation analyst jeff wise, a science journalist, mikey kay, former adviser to the uk ministry of defense and aviation analyst maria schiavo, christine densen, oercean explorer and mis o brien, a pilot and aviation analyst as well. miles, i ll begin with you. this new information, a game changer. if so, why? i think so, don. what we re seeing there is the
a question. our viewers are tweeting questions about this the mysterious disappearance of this airliner. and so they want to get some of the questions answered. first one, i ll ask this one from dexter and will go to christine. how much data can a flight recorder store? do you know the answer to that? i don t. i sort of kick that over to maria schiavo. about on this one, probably 1500 parameters which means little bits of data from all the control services, equipment, instruments, et cetera, in the plane, just to tell you everything the plane is doing. okay. jeff, donald tweeted this. why not install a shockproof floating beacon ball in the tail of airplanes which would be injected and start emitting on impact. i lost my glasses, so excuse me. that s a very good question. it is sort of part of a part of a type of question that we re getting a lot, why not have a better system of reporting information about planes that