your instrument panel will momentarily go blank when you re using it, but that could be a surge situation there. richard, are we any closer to understanding, are investigators any closer to understanding whether or not the plane was on autopilot or annual control, given the turns we now know the aircraft made? no, we re not. we know the first turn, then the west turn, then there s the turn, the long turn that takes it down into the south indian ocean. clearly, no pilot is going to be standing there or sitting there holding the controls for the full several hours. i think that s highly unlikely for six, seven hours as the plane comes down until fuel exhaustion. but even if it s not on full autopilot, the plane will keep going. it s a myth that you take your hands off the controls and the
/ remotely operated camera. and then on that, did the black box still have the recording of what occurred in the moment when the plane started going down? had it i think from the time the plane started going down to the time it hit the water it was relatively quick, right? four minutes. so the surprising thing there was that it had been two years that those boxes were at about 4,000 meters depth. so 2 1/2 miles depth. we had no idea whether the information would still be there. but anderson, in this day and age with the right robots, and we ve got those robots and the right sensors, they exist as well, you can do a crime scene analysis at depth at a wreck like air france 447. you can look at every surface, the cockpit, the panels, the landing gear, the flaps. whatever the investigators want to look at you can look at. that s remarkable. david gallo, appreciate it. thanks very much. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk. [ meows ]
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thing turns. if both engines go out, and it depends how quickly they go out in terms of a turn or remaining straight, but how long can the plane just basically glide for? david can correct me on this, but it s going to reach its own natural stability. in this airplane, it s electronic stability. it s an airplane, it s going to fly even if it doesn t have power. that s what it is meant to do. if one engine goes out, it naturally finds its own center. say the right engine goes out, that wing will reach a flat spot and create more lift than this one. so that weight is underneath the center it can go for some distance? absolutely. i think 20 something miles. it depends on the altitude. i thank you.
our breaking news tonight. the search is back on for flight 370. and wit everyone hopes only answers. complicating the effort determining how far that plane flew after running out of few. tom forman shows us how investigators have been doing that. reporter: in terms of a primary search area, we re no longer talking about millions of square miles, but about 621,000 square miles. how do you break down something that big, even with a lot of assets? this is how it s done. imagine our plane coming in here over this search area in the indian ocean, and this is what they essentially do, they will impose a grid on the ocean. but all of the squares of this searchable area are not equal in value. for example, in this case, you might say the most likely place is the middle, because that s simply where all the averages come together. that s where you have chosen this square.