instructor there. welcome back. let me begin. you have recreated this suspected path of this flight. what did you glean from that? right now as a matter of fact in the virtual world, we are about almost in the area where the debris was believed to be. 1400 miles south of australia. you want to peer out the window and look down as if you can help, but it wouldn t. let s talk about the auto pilot. we are on auto pilot. if you were to disengage it here, let me hear that alarm. there is an alarm that goes off and a notification here. i shut the warning off and you can show us you can cake over the control manually. the auto pilot is here and this is how it operate and
conversation. jump in. here s the 50 question to you. beyond the weather, what are the other difficulties and the other challenges searching. the latest numbers we have, 20 ships. 35 aircraft. all will be helping in this area to try to figure out what the heck that stuff is. the debro was found north of the strongest currents which flow from west to east. where the debris is, you can be a current of maybe about a half mile an hour and 12 hours. 24 hours, you move 12 miles towards the east. however i think the bigger problem has to do with the weather. the high winds and these waves are large in that area. i have been in that area many times and waves are more than 20 feet. that is going probably have the
beneath? talk about the masses that vary so much between 15,000 feet and topography on the bottom of the ocean. would they be pushing under water and looking underneath? that would be what they are going to have to do. it s the debris i believe that dropped very close to the mid-ocean ridge. the average depth might be 2,000 to 2500 meters. the sea floor is very rough there. mountains and valleys. the debro from the plane would have broken up and be scattered in different places in the hills and valleys. they can send down unmanned submarines and they move very slowly. it will take a long time to find it. they are talking about months. somebody was saying earlier today it s like we know more
that one was ended up the airplane was not damaged at all. you could have another situation where the same scenario where the pilots are under control and it does break up into pieces. another one, less likely from the standpoint that it could glide into the water without any control by the pilot. the third one was where you would run out of fuel and the aircraft would probably just nose over and into the water in a vertical status where the airplane would one guess would be that the airplane would come down and you would have it like hitting a brick wall. just crumbling and going together. pieces may break off or not. we are kind of working backwards. if this is debris from the plane, we know the investigators
the next thing you would do and this is what he does for a living. he puts equipment into the ocean, sonar equipment. he does he s highly specialized searches. it would take approximately 45 days to do a very detailed search of a particular area. assuming you came up with something, you would put in secondary equipment. this would be rov equipment with cameras and the ability to extraicate debris. that would take another 45 days. we are looking at 90 days just to do this search. we don t even know what we are dealing with at this stage of the game. we don t know if it is debris. this could take a very, very long time assuming we confirm this is plane wreckage. it took two years to recover the black boxes in the air france crash. we are talking about a pain staking process. right. they have to get the vessels and aircraft out there in a matter of hours when the sun comes up to figure out where. keep in mind the satellite