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instructor mitchell casada. aviation analyst miles o brien and richard quest. martin, the map that the australians released last night says that the plane would have been traveling 400 knot as hour to get to the new search area. what does that tell us if anything about the altitude the plane was flying? reporter: well, we re still not clear on that particular one. for instance, 400 knots sounds like a lot of speed. but it s actually not as fast as what this aircraft would typically fly when it was cruising at 35,000 feet. for instance, right now we re doing 478 knots. so it was going slower than it actually would normally do. and the question is, where was it in altitude? we know that after it turned it dropped off of radar and the transponder disappeared thought went down we believe to around 12,000 feet. so mitchell, i put it to you. if you re doing 400 knots at 1200 feet, naturally that is going to be a lot different and
i ve looked at it for that night. basically it was an east to west cross wind. it would have blown the plane a little bit to the west but would have no appreciable difference on the range. so basically 400 knots is as fast as the aerodynamic frame is designed to go at 12,000 feet. why they are just now realizing this, we talked about this a week ago. i m a little mystified. they have the radar data now. they ve gotten their act together. they re sharing this information. a lot of this is sensitive stuff. but that s why we have a search now that is falling shorter than it was before. question for both miles and/or mitchell. at 12,000 feet, at 400 knots, flying for six hours, or to the last ping, do you get the range that puts it where it is now, miles? just back of the envelope stuff that we have, and this is making some assumptions about how much fuel they loaded on.
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cross wind. it would have blown the plane a little bit to the west but would have no appreciable difference on the range. so basically 400 knots is as fast as the aerodynamic frame is designed to go at 12,000 feet. why they are just now realizing this, we talked about this a week ago. i m a little mystified. they have the radar data now. they ve gotten their act together. they re sharing this information. a lot of this is sensitive stuff. but that s why we have a search now that is falling shorter than it was before. question for both miles and/or mitchell. at 12,000 feet, at 400 knots, flying for six hours, or to the last ping, do you get the range that puts it where it is now, miles? just back of the envelope stuff that we have, and this is making some assumptions about how much fuel they loaded on. but coincidentally, the distance