by weather. the crews are incredibly trained and prepared. but they are battling the elements and fatigue. the ships carry enough fuel and can also run lower than they expect just because they re being forced to wait around and follow this debris more than they may have anticipated. at a certain point, they may have to turn back and bring in a second ship or a third ship, just because of the fuel consumption issues they re having, as well. mikey kay, you want to get in on this? i want to say it s frustrating, as well. the satellite images are the third one we had now. what they re turning up is no equivocal evidence. you get the i d one out there, a freighter that was out there, the potential containers that can be pushed off ships.
over this area looking. so far, they haven t found anything, don. we identify the piece from the satelli satellite. step two, we find it. that hasn t happened. the u.s. navy, sending a special listening device to australia to be on stand-by if any physical evidence turns up. the navy listening device can help locate pingers from the flight s data recorder. joining us is less aldman. and jeff wise. mikey kay, former adviser to the u.s. department of defense. and less, to you first. as a former pilot, as a 777 pilot still, an oceaning aer if experts is joining us, as well. let s talk about all this. as they are looking for the search now, what is this information, you think? what does this change, especially when it comes to the
and will keep going as long as we re needed out there. lieutenant levy, thank you very much. we appreciate it. good luck to you guys out there. i want to tackle some viewer questions now. i ll ask you this one, this one is from mikey kay. if the plane dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000, what would have been its fuel range. i m not sure if you know that. it is a great question. i think what we re now seeing at the moment is contradictory reporting. what we re seeing is noncomplementary information. to the point, if the aircraft dropped to 12,000 feet and is heading westbound toward the malacca strait, we know that the lower an aircraft goes, the less efficient it becomes in terms of endurance and what that would do is bring into question whether a boeing 777 could make it down into the area that all this effort is being focused on off the southwestern tip of australia. noncomplementary in that
listing device to australia to be on stand by if any physical evidence of malaysia flight 370 turns up. navy listening device can help locate pingers from the flight s data recorder. joining us to discuss that is les abend, former 777 pilot and also aviation analyst jeff wise, science journalist. mikey kay, former adviser to the uk minister of defense and mary schiavo, former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. les abend, to you first. let s talk about all of this. as they re look for the search now what is this information? what does this change especially when it comes to the pilots actions? well, it says you know, once again, i m open to any scenarios. i think the data we got from radar and so on has been sketchy
it doesn t include the pre and postflight. it s very daunting. it s very tasking on the crews to find this stuff. to locate it. but they re doing their best. we re dedicated to the mission. we ll keep going. lieutenant levy, thank you very much. we appreciate it. good luck to you guys out there. i want to tackle some of you viewer questions right now. i want to ask you this one. this one is for mikey kay. the plane dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000, what would have been its fuel range? i don t know if you know that. that s a great question. what we re seeing at the moment, is conflicting reports. we re seeing complementary information. we know that the lower an air force goes, the less efficient