wouldn t worry about altitude he would worry about attitude how stable is his airplane in terms of his horizon. what do you make jeff? well airbuses are built with something called envelope protection. when you re flying them around normally the plane will not let you put it into a situation beyond its flight envelope or to stall, for instance. you can get into situations this happened with air france 447 where if the sensors get clogged for instance and the computer isn t able to make sense of what it s doing it will turn itself off and hand itself over to the pilot. in a normal situation the flight computer will not let you do something that s outside of the envelope. bear in mind however, first of all i don t know if this is true that this would put you beyond the envelope. we don t know if the source of the data is reliable. and i m reminded of mh-370. we had these reports that the
can put it to a waypoint. there are a range of ways of entering information into the flight computer. or you can log it directly on its current path. yes. the lady in the back. the two summations obviously were they able to finish their job, or will they finish their job before august? and after august when you contract maybe a commercial on the water surge, what s next, and what s the capacity of that future vehicle. how many square kilometers will it cover for the answer to the first of those questions is, that we will be progressively mapping it will take us at least three months. that started a week or two ago.
range, which is why they think they have a strong lead here. and this is really the strongest lead that we have because we re just minutes away from entering day 35, john. still not one single piece of physical debris from this plane despite all the daily flights that are emp issing for it. no debris. that is one of the great mysteries here. but every time they get an additional ping under water there, it narrow that search even more. will ripley live for us in perth, australia, with new details. appreciate it. ahead for us at this hour, the malaysians say they think the plane dipped to between 4,000 feet and 5,000 feet. so is this credible? if it happened, was it to avoid radar? what are the implications? could this have been programmed into the flight computer? we ll ask all these questions coming up next.
the weather is going to continue to deteriorate and visibility will get lower and lower. that is going to be a significant problem. of course, despite the challenges presented by the weather, this search effort has been relentless. cnn s andrew stevens joining us there on the line from perth, australia. let s get more about that new information about the malaysian plane s movement. we know it turned to the left intentionally and it was not preprogrammed to the flight computer. also the plane then went down to 12,000 feet. will ripley joins us from kuala lumpur. this news about the possible suspect debris being found in the indian ocean, it s been out there a few hours now. any reaction from official there is in kuala lumpur?
attorney for victims and families of transportation accidents. ric gillespie, airplane recovery clan, author of amelia earhart, another mystery, kit darby, head of his own aviation consulting firm, an cnn s david soucy. the panel is familiar with this but viewers just joining might not have heard this new development from malaysian authorities this morning saying that as far as their analysis of the data is concerned, they saw no indication from the plane that that turn to the west away from its original course towards beijing from kuala lumpur was preprogrammed into that flight computer. this had been a development about a week ago that had raised a lot of questions about why the pilots would have preprogrammed the turn before very calmly and in a friendly manner saying their last good night, their last communication with the ground. i just wondered with this new development and i m going to give at least a couple of you a chance to comment, but mary, does this eliminate any