with an airplane crash after the plane s last sighting on radar. this happened on the east of malaysia. we want to get straight there and bringing out the pilot and energy, author rosenburg. you know about planes and lithium batteries and they can trigger fires and you talked about the weight. this is someone s blackberry. it powers our phones. this is the best form of energy and the best battery that we can get for the longest amount of time that is lightweight. that s why they use them. this miracle of modern technology pound for pound provides the most bang in energy for the weight and the buck. the lithium batteries in the airplanes are huge by comparison. you are talking about something which is probably two feet long
evan, let s go to you. answer my question. is it standard in that part of the world? we don t know. that s something we need to check on. we will read into the reporting that you and pamela brown have. some u.s. officials believe that the plane s westward turn and continued flight discount the battery theory. a fire would have been catastrophic and rendered the plane unable to continue to fly. that s right. the mystery is the plane diverts from the course and ends up crossing the peninsula and towards the indian ocean. various things have been picked up from satellite and radar and the pings sent from ground stations to the aircraft and being returned occurred one every hour. for five hours, there were pings returned that indicated that it was still functional and it was still intact is what the
disappearance of the plane. u.s. officials who have been briefed on the latest intelligence wonder if lithium batteries may have played a in the disappearance of the plane. we are working and our sources will get you new information as we get it. we want to talk about tracking the plane. we want to bring in ted meyers. authorities believe they have several pings from the airliner s system.nd to viewers what a cars is. people are saying i know where my car is and the go, ps knows how fast i m going, how can we not know where giant jetliner is. there is gps in the airliner, but only for the captain. that location doesn t get pinged back down to the ground for the most part. the other thing is radar. radar is a big thing and always has been a big thing for airlines. the primary radar, you see a
blip. the secondary radar waits for the ping and a squawk from the airplane. the secondary sends a signal and the plane sends it back andys i am malaysia systems, 39,000 feet to the northeast and about 025 was the heading. i m at 39,000 doing about 450 knots. that s all we know. this is how good we are. that goes back to the air traffic control. we would love to have them take over. it hasn t been implemented yet. here s the rub i will leave that. this is the map of where we are talking about. the plane is trying to go all the way to here. there is so much fuel in the plane. it can go to these islands, but noplace to land. it could have gone to india or asia. there is so much fuel still to go on this plane.
why doesn t the radar work that good. even the local radar it won t go in a straight line. columbus found out that the world was not flat. it doesn t even see it. the other plane doesn t even see it. it s blind because there is not enough radars out there. the radar when you get out here is so much empty land and water. there is not enough to see where we could be going. this here is a black hole in some spots for where there is not enough coverage. we go to this a cars system that seemed to have been turned off and operating on a primary channel somewhere. that s what the pings are coming off. everyone is looking at them, especially the royals royce ping who said the engineers were running. did that happen or not.