pilot proof. take a listen. engineers determined the fact that 75% of the actions are caused by pilots or contributory. so they decided that the skill levels with the amount of pilots you need for the amount of aircraft may not be available of the so they decided to put an aircraft that was essentially pilot proof. let s say you wanted to execute a 40-degree angle of bank. the aircraft would not allow them to do that because the aircraft computers have determined that the pilot is putting the aircraft at risk. if you were in a boeing fly by wire, you could crank that over to 50, 60 degrees. if you re just joining us, we learned the cloud ceiling on this thunderstorm 44,000 feet. that aircraft only designed to go as high as 42,000 feet. so there would have been no reason for him to try to go above this thunderstorm. there are questions this morning as to whether or not this aircraft stalled. there are reports that they may have been going too slow according to radar reports 100
horizontally and vertical. so that s what creates that turbulence that s so extreme with these storms. here is a look at the satellite imagery. you can see a lot of cloud cover, a lot of storms out there. one storm in particular that was very near the plane happened to go up and collapse very quickly. so that will be something else that meteorologists will have to consider. otherwise taking a look at the forecast more showers and thunderstorm activity. it shouldn t be as bad as what we saw early on sunday morning, but any activity or precipitation could hinder any search and possibly rescue efforts. let s head over to you. thanks so much. let s bring in mechanical engineering professor at the university of north dakota and author of the book beyond the black box. george bible. nice to see you. welcome to the show. thank you. what do you make of this news about the weather 44,000 feet for a cloud ceiling, as maria molina reporting on all of this and the plane only able to go
for another day. it s storm season there, and we are talking gale-force winds, up to 50 miles an hour, driving rains, a low cloud ceiling, and massive ocean swells. 12 feet high. as many as a dozen aircraft are expected to be in the air as soon as possible. that includes seven military aircraft. the only plus is that the search zone has shifted east. it is now about 1,500 miles off the australian coast, meaning less travel time and more search time. the zone s narrowed from nearly 3 million square miles at its largest to just more than 600,000 square miles today. once the weather does clear, an australian naval vessel will sweep the waters where several pieces of possible debris were seen from the air on monday. six countries are on stand by to assist in that search and india has assets on route. the u.s. navy s black box detector, underwater microphones, and a mini subare also in perth. they will likely be deployed next week along with an australian vessel. here s what those crews wil
charge in perth, lieutenant chandler. we know weather. how would you describe how it s going? crews are out doing what they are supposed to do, like you said. we were challenged yesterday with a low cloud ceiling. i think a lot of people wonder just exactly how you conduct a search. we know it takes four hours to get out there and you have two hours to certainly the area. what exactly do you look for? anything out of the ordinary. most generally looking at the ocean, rather monotonous and pretty much the same. looks the same. anything not supposed to be out there generally stands out. looking for any kind of debris, anything that s not man made not natural that s man made is something that could be a clue. if this is the plane that is out there, are you confident
the live pictures from the chopper continue to come in. on the right-hand side of the screen that s the tornado as it was developing. it was just before 4:00 this afternoon eastern time. so 3:00 there. we have lots of monitors coming in from all over the country and we were watching as this tornado just a little sliver of a thing came down out of a cloud and if you are a floridian and you live in the south. it s the kind of thing you might see come down over the gulf of mexico and just sort of slip into the water and again go back into the sky. it was just a tiny sky. cloud ceiling lowered and lowered. the clouds were getting closer to the ground. the size of the tornado at the ground kept getting wider and wider. going appear what appeared to be wide open spaces. then suddenly you could tell there is a farm there it turns out that was orb farm. at this point it s between 1 and 2 miles wide. 106-acre farm there where 75 to 100 horses were