will know with great detail the way the current was moving. at different levels. the surface. the mid. the lower levels. they will be able to work out how far. it is likely. we are seeing so much debris. the seats. the body. the portal. the part the window section that we saw. we are seeing so much wreckage. particular area. that now they can do this this modeling to quite a very sharp level of accuracy. that doesn t mean it is going to be that way. it really takes you into the haystack. doesn t take you right to that point of the haystack where the needle is. david. several metal objects have been detected. part of the plane. divers can t get down there. can sonar give a full enough picture to determine whether or not they re in fact from the plane. david gallow talking specific sonar. it is not clear if it is on site. as david mentioned. there is different frequencies. higher frequencies.
it would have a 90-day battery. it changed to make every one manufactured past the day. 90 days. may have a reprieve. i have a message in to confirm that or not. david gallow one official is, thought that perhaps the black boxes could be buried by mud. just how much would that or potentially could hat muffle the sound of pings. could it make it so they couldn t be heard at all? yeah. it could potentially muffle the sound. i don t think enough that it would be take away too much from the range which would be one, two two miles. just from what i know. i don t think. very much. interesting. in the control room when a plane spotted, two other passengers two other passenger s bodies. they have yet to actually verify yet to get a ship out there. i guess they will be able to sort of triangulate based on currents. how far people have gone. right. the phrase is reverse drift. they will know which way, they
and that just underscores the need to find the black boxes. two things are going on. you have to go on about the investigation about why the plane crashed. and there is recovery of bodies. another flight attendant has been found. another person who was apparently not wearing a seat belt when this plane went down. others have been found reportedly strapped into seats. does that lead to any conclusion or any theory about what caused the plane to go down? is it still too early? it does seem to lead to the conclusion that maybe this was an attempted landing on the surface of the ocean. but again, i think for me, it s a little too early to say. all right. david gallo, helping us understand what it takes to bring up these pieces and to find them and what they could possibly tell us about why the plane went down. david, thanks. you re very welcome, victor. we want to get you your top five stories you need to know on this new day.
do they have the know how to pull off a recovery like this? there are still questions about the location of all the debris. seems like a small body of water. david gallow. usually you re extremely careful not to say that you found something until you ground truth it. he participated in the recovery effort in the crash of air france flight 447 off brazil s northeastern coast. the black boxes took almost two years to recover. footnoting what a painstaking process this can be. joe johns, cnn, washington. we have david gallo of the oceanographic institution us with now. david, you know, the poor visibility, strong currents and the java sea. weather is better today but not great. it is causing so much of a problem to find what is left of this plane. how much more difficult does it become as the days go on and on to find maybe the smaller pieces of this plane? sure. for the families involved, it s
but when you re at 150 feet just like if you re on a ship, you can t see very far out, and if you re in the air at 150 feet you can t see very far out. it s very difficult and you have to do shorter back and forth patterns to look for the debris than you would if you were flying higher. in addition if the sea state or how big the waves are, if they re whitecaps and they re breaking all of this can look just like aircraft debris. you re moving at over 125 knots, 150 knots when you re flying over the water. so a relative speed appears faster the lower you are over the water, and that yet makes it more difficult for the rescue the visual rescuers. david, how much of the plane s fuselage could be moving around in the turbulent waters? and then also talk about some of the debris that s more buoyant and how that could be affected. at depth, breanna, it s tough to say because you would have to know the current strength exactly, and also the shape and weight of those items at the