lovers. prosecutors say the captain abandoned ship back in 2012 after he smashed into some rocks near an island off italy s western coast. he claims he slipped and fell into a lifeboat. it was miraculous. investigators say by the time the captain ordered everybody to evacuate some people couldn t get out because the ship was tilted to such a steep angle. workers managed to turn that ship upright and have been miss mantling it. trace gallagher has more. what did he have to say, trace? reporter: what he said and did, he was 45 minutes late to court. he was waving his arms and making wild gestures and he pointed a lot of fingers saying the hemisphereman from indonesia didn t speak good enough english or italian to understand his orders although the audiotape shows the helmsman understood
mundane, we re hearing from the families that they want the air traffic control conversations, more information from radar and everything down to numbers off of the black boxes. none of that will be in this preliminary report. is that what i m hearing? since i have been here, i learned an enormous amount more about the flight and what happened and what s reliable and what s not. give you an example. all of the salt tud changes, none of it is reliable. it s all based on primary radar. the pm said yes, they saw the plane going across. they thought it was civil and didn t see it as a threat. the question of what did
and the weight of all of those poor people who are waiting for an answer. we have been, you know, reading these reports that officials are considering revisiting calculations, maybe expanding the search, back to the notion that much of this part of the world haven t been mapped. what do you think of the identity of expanding the search? we have explored less than 5% of our oceans. that is amazing. less than 5%. to date. tell me about mission 31. we certainly didn t time this
indonesia say? indonesia didn t see the plane going around the top. ourses here tell me that s either because radar is witched off or because their radar is so bad. these are the sort of things that one is learning now in the investigation. this is absolutely fascinating. you are there pressing for some answers to these questions that we have been waiting for. if i could ask you to standby. you have been eating, living, breathing, eating the story. plus we will talk to more experts. more reaction on this breaking news, the exclusive sit down interview with the malaysian prime minister right after this. hey. i m ted and this is rudy.
mary, when you take into account everything we ve heard, including some of the new information that we have, which is the plane after the turn went up to 39,000 feet within its safe operating range and went down to 4,000 feet, which theoretically would have been able to avoid oncoming traffic, but possibly do you think could have been this whole thing could have been mechanical? certainly, and what we don t know is much greater than what we do know, and by the way, all that altitude data is highly suspect. remember, first of all, they had it wildly fluctuating from 45,000, down to skirting radar down skimming the surface, now it s at 39,000, then we had the 5,000. then we have it skirting ind knee is that, but indonesia didn t really see it, which is why indonesia concludes it skirted indonesia when indonesian radar is only on 12 hours a day. anything we re basing our