expect to see a very long or large debris field. if you remember when pan am exploded, there was a debris field of 100 miles because that was a high-altitude event. if there was a nine or ten-mile area, that tells me that the aircraft probably broke up in flight but at a very low altitude because the wreckage didn t have an opportunity to spread over a long distance. so investigators can put those pieces back together and look for tell-tale signs of an exclusive device. greg feith, thank you for being here. i want to go back to jim tillman. just talking about the way to investigate this, is there an altitude that a commercial pilot could take that would be safer? it does seem like these planes fly i m assuming at the maximum
disturbances on board, any communication, any last communication at all that might assist in the investigation? it s possible. there s none. a missile can be an instantaneous event. you may not have time to communicate. but, also, explosives, bombs can go off and don t totally disintegrate an aircraft either. missiles either. so theags what you re going to want to hear investigatively. and joy, you re on the right line of the inquiry here with greg feith and the military. the picture will be there because we re watching that area so closely because of all of the conflict. it will be there if there was an explosion in flight. it will be pretty evident and, also, whether the missile was
imagery. could they get assistance from the russians because these are separatists, whether russia wants to claim it or not and if the equipment came across the border, it would, getting on to that kr that crash site, require assistance. you have a russian government that disavows all knowledge. they say don t look at me, we don t know anything about those guys at all. they are doing what we want to do. they have nothing to do with it. i don t think we re going to get a lot of help from the russians. indeed. let me bring in greg fife. talk about this now, having worked for the ntsb, the national transportation safety board and having to conduct these kinds of investigations. on u.s. soil is one thing. areas that are under the security control is one thing and doing it in this kind of a situation is quite another.
back talking about the search for flight 370. greg fife, safety investigator, former pilot anthony roman is here. and mya is an oceanographer who studied ocean acoustics, currently a professor with columbia university. mya, just looking at this on the map and starting to read about it, it seems to me this is the most remote area of the world. it s like 1,500 miles from perth, australia. we re talking about something that s three miles deep into the ocean. what is the ocean like on the surface there and when you start getting that deep into the ocean, what is it like? well, it is a very remote area there, but you have to remember two-thirds of the surface of our planet are covered with ocean, so there s a lot of remote ocean out there. the good news with this search
as they are transparent, frankly. and we are going to continue to keep our eye on that developing situation. meantime, one month to the day that malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished. the search teams today failed to find anymore pings deep under the indian ocean, and officials say it could take days to determine if two acoustic signals are connected to the missing plane. it is a herculean task over a wide area and the water is extremely deep. this is day 32. i want to confirm that we have at least several days of the intense action ahead of is. and let me bring in the former ntsb investigate for greg fife, and should we be surprised that they have not detected anymore of the pings? what is going on here? i don t think so, chris. it yesterday was hopeful and optimist optimistic, but you have to be