area of the ocean. is it in the ocean? i m not certain about that. i have never had an answer to where the plane was the last time we knew about the whereabouts and the heading it took when it left there. he is saying they should look further north. i m not sure about you, les, but are we 0 in consensus that we are not even we may not even be in the right search area? i think i certainly feel that way. les? yeah, don, i d like to think there are greater minds than i am that at least we re calculating this appropriately. my question is, yeah, i m kind of with mikey with reference to moving the search area north because of my theory that the 12,000 foot altitude is still in play it may mean lesser distance. i m leaning that wachl i m not there on that part of that
aviation consultant, both experienced captains of boeing 777s. if it was flying faster earlier, explain the significance of that? it means it used more fuel earlier? the faster it goes, the more fuel it is going to burn. at higher altitudes, the airplane has less resistance and i capable of going faster with the assumption it was at 35,000 o 35,000 feet on itst contact that we know of. that s where all the calculations began, from the point where we knew the airplane was last. all the wings that wre were talking about. if the airplane had gone down to the 12,000 foot altitude that was discuss the last week or earlier in the week, it would have burned a little bit more fuel but gone slower, because it is more resistance down lower. a lot of people thought the search area was too far south
that company has the imagine parameters. that s great, what about this plane? i can t speak for malaysia airlines, but it sounds like they didn t have the program that dem nated the data. i agree that there has to be security and it can be misinterpreted. here s the question i have not seen yet. could the pilots have bailed out when over land at 12,000 feet because they were afraid to return? is that possible? we hear about the 12,000 foot altitude post dramatic left hand turn? is that even possible? you are talking 12,000 feet.
obvious what happened. yeah, we don t have anything clear cut here. i like the guys in the simulator to try one idea. let s assume the left engine is the first engine to be started generally. let s assume the left engine flamed out first. if you guys could put it and let s go with the 12,000 foot altitude, which we ve been talking about. i don t believe a lot of these altitude numbers we ve been hearing about it. so put it on autopilot with asymmetrical thrust with the left engine off. if one engine is going full gun, the other is down, will the autopilot still hold heading or disen gauge and start turning to the left?
so whoever dropped the plane down to 12,000 feet wasn t trying to evade the radar, but they were well below a heavily traveled air corridor. planes travel on the highways in the sky, they share the air space with lots of other aircraft. 12,000 feet allowed this flight 370 to avoid all that air traffic, but they were still on the radar being tracked until about 2:40 a.m. will ripley, the day is just beginning. any word on if officials will comment about the drop in altitude of this plane? no official comment. cnn confirmed this through a source with very close knowledge of this investigation. the official word we re getting from authorities here in malaysia and also in australia is that the search efforts are under way right now. some planes took off several hours before, taking off before daylight to try to maximize the amount of time available in this search area. we have for the p-8 and the p-3 orion, the backbone of this