wasn t something nefarious or sinister behind the flight s failure. whether or not this was an electrical failure in the belly of the plane or fire and gas, the crew and passengers, they could have become incapacitated pretty quickly leaving this plane to fly on its own and simply drop in the ocean. it s incredible. a spooky possibility. thanks very much to susan malvo in washington. i want to bring our panel of experts to continue this conversation and get to the issue of the zombie flight. mary schiavo. author of the book n finding amelia. a retired commercial airline pilot and our analyst david soosy. i want to give you a chance to comment on this scenario. talk in the idea of a zombie plane. what would cause that to happen. looking at the data as you see it now, i m not going to hold this to you but do you see information pointing in that
invested in in the last few years. these are $250 million each. the government spent over $32 billion just in the last few years implementing this poseidon program. it s very valuable. it s looking for submarines. that s what it s designed for, among other things. when you re looking for a submarine, you ve used as much spread as you can. it s like taking this airplane and expanding the width to as far as the drones can fly, coordinating that information and back to see what the results of the drone search is. more of an argument for more assets. the more you have doing it, the better you can be. the last thing you want in this grid is to have another airplane flying over and confusing things. have you to have a centralized location. as david pointed out, you re clearing an area. clearing is we know it s not here. so as this progress less in each area actually helps the search. more is not necessarily better. that s correct. david funk, thank you very much for joining us.
you ll be able to find it? if there s any wreckage on the surface of the ocean, yes, i m confident we ll be able to find it. day 14 here in kuala lumpur, everyone waiting and watching this mystery. chris, as you know, the more time that ticks away in terms of days, the more people are concerned about the battery life of the black box that everyone so desperately wants to find. chris. no question, kate. that s a hard reality, the limited time of the battery. also time makes people more expectant for answers. that can fuel speculation and disappointment, that s a real set of issues as we see what will happen with this debris. lets dig in deeper with a pilot, former international captain for northwest airlines, david soosy, analyst, inspector and author of why planes crash. i m seeming skeptical this morning as i have been from the
so far it lost fuel, maybe there s a pocket and it could float, now there s a possibility andette could fill up with water and sink. it goes both ways. david, looking at this, why would we believe the plane would fly as far down west. why isn t it more reasonable to be searching areas in the strait of malacca where it was last seen. you ve got military radar in the area. they didn t pick up tracks. really it s a process of elimination. if we know the airline wasn t in a certain spot, we can go look into a different area. i think that s why australians and malaysians have gone out this far. no one picked anything up across that part of the world with their military radars. they would have forensic tapes, i m sure, like we do, that they can go back and double-check