two hours. how valuable do you think these recorders will be? you know, i m not sure two hours in this particular scenario is going to be enough because the aircraft has traveled a significant distance from the actual area where it s initially gone off track. i think when we talked earlier we look at the where, the what thes, and the why. the why bit is going on the incredibly difficult to discern if we re going to go back all of the way six hours to the point where the transponder came off in the south china sea and why it occurred. having cvr data at that point when it initially diverted from its track to beijing, i think that will be key. so not having that is now, the data recorders though would go back further than two hours. you would get a complete picture of data from those recorders. 25 hours. yes. it would encompass the entire flight. now, david, with air france,
the wreckage on the bottom they will look somewhere else. david, is that the right move? if he is confident they have seen nothing in this phase with the blue-fin, what else is he supposed to do? i think they will take a hard look at the data they have collected and maker sure they haven t missed that aircraft and look at the priorities and go from there. sure, it s the right thing to do. michael, the surface search is another option. lots of assets up in the air but they haven t found anything. what do they do with that? do they also take a pause? it goes back to the constraints on what they have been working at, the tempo. it s over 45 days now. we really must take our hats off to the air crews and the engineers that have been providing that search tempo. items tough tutedy. it is you have to reset the airplane in terms of the various levels of surfacing and are extremely important the number one thing is maintaining the
cockpit, you know. every salvage job is different. the wreckage is essential, too. we talked about the engines being key because you could tell if they were still spinning or stopped spinning and in effect, run out of fuel before it hit the water you can hear that from the cockpit area microphone. you could hear the engines were still going or not going. yes. that s another point. so the amount of data that you can get out of these things even in the last two hours. we don t have much time left. i would ask perhaps michael, there had been some confidence, i think expectations raised about a week ago from the australian prime minister who is spearheading this search saying we re confident. now you have this step back week, we may have to regroup.ext i have confidence in chief marshall houston. i think so far he s conductedmp. he s taken the search out to the ping limit. we should trust in him to do the same with the bluefin. as david was talking about earlier it may not just b
calculate distance based on that weakening signal? right. david, you found the other great mystery on the bottom of the ocean, air france 447. what lessons were learned in that semp? it took a long time. that can apply here as they are adjusting? in the search itself i think the big lesson was patience. we had in the early days a lot of distractions and it wasn t until the team had the opportunity to be left alone and it came down to one team with one set of technology. we had three 6,000 very large to the blue-fin. we had one operational plan and that was to cover area systematically with only one goal and find that aircraft and those black boxes and we didn t think about anything else for those two years in that search. so many things. choose your goal and stick with the plan. right. we will have david, paul, and michael back in a short time. thanks very much, as always. coming up, there are heart breaking stories coming out of
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