so i think it is possible that the debris we re still looking at may still be out there and it may still be potential airplane pieces. what you re saying, you believe which we re showing the screen, the images that we ve seen over the last week, you believe those still may be potential airplanes? it is possible. but then why wouldn t they continue to search in the area because the impetus is to find debris. but the potential is to find the black boxes that are hopefully pinging? david gallow, is the impetus to find the debris first and to try and figure out backwards? after air france 447, we put a lot of emphasis on the last known position and to look around there. so we re look at the middle of the hay stack, and if there is a good last known position to start with that and to let any
france flight 447 investigation. do you know much about the under sea area in this new search area? i mean, he was saying it is about as deep as the old search area, which was certainly extraordinarily deep. do we know much about the topography there? well, there is a tremendous under water volcanic mountain range, called the southeast indian ridge. at the crest of it, it is about 2500 meters, off to the north it gets gradually deeper, about 4500 meters. that is kind of what i heard them say, beyond, so it will be similar to the old place. and david gallow, is it your understanding this is an area to look for the debris and do they believe it is in the same area or at least the area large enough that the crash site may also be in this area?
taking the pictures at 1700 miles an hour. then they have to download the information to get the high definition information. it takes a long time. he is talking 24 hours just to download them after they take the pictures and then they have to do the analysis. you know, david gallow, i talked to the commander, we ll talk to him shortly after the break. he said they were not frustrated. this is what they do. you have been out on the water 24/7 searching out in in water. personally, do you get frustrated? what is it like to search out there? it is maddening for people watching it to feel very caught up in it to have this roller coaster, well, we think now the debris is here, here is satellite imagery. now we learned all the stuff is being discounted. we re moving on. sure, i mean, i think the teams on the ships are probably saying that. but i agree with commander
this new search and rescue refined mission will give them what they want, some type of proof that what the malaysian authorities say happened to the plane actually happened. it is important to talk about, paula talked about the importance of the debris for the families. and certainly that is a major point. but for an investigative standpoint to learn what happened to the aircraft they have to find the debris, not just figure out where the aircraft itself is. but it will actually help them start to figure out perhaps what happened to the aircraft itself. and you will be surprised what you can learn from a small piece of debris. if there is any charting on the inside, deposits, whether there was a fire inside or smoke. even after floating in the water for this long there is an enormous amount of information we can get off the debris. david gallow, on the 447 investigation, they were actually able to figure out how the plane entered the water, correct? yeah, we had a good idea it
basically say what of the original data is accurate and true? of these pings, of these turns, what is valid? i think it is a stretch to discount all the data because there is change in this. you have to evaluate all the data. you don t just throw out the baby with the bath water. you have to do it logically and stick with these, and then calculate it. to say to discount everything we ve done entirely and give up and say well, i guess we don t know anything, let s start over. i don t think that is what they re doing here. david gallow, what else jumps out to you from that press conference? i heard a lot of inconsistencies as you did. and again, these are the spokespeople so they don t know all the intricacies, and all the detail. so i have to give them some space there. but again, i have to hope that whatever is going on behind those closed doors that they