an aircraft carrier can operate, and it would be paced that would give them an opportunity to spend more time on target. i m excited about what we re hearing tonight about a completely different set of coordinates to take this thing well away from where we re looking right now. don, on the floating runway thing, about the station time, there has been progress made today. i understand the reporting that malaysia is asking for u.s. refueling capability, so that should help the amount of time these aircraft are able to stay on station. p-8s can be refueled in flight, the p-3s cannot be refueled in flight. if you re sending an aircraft carrier, you re sending a lot more assets down there, because you re sending a carrier group. when we come back, we ll check in with cnn s martin
after days of searching need to rest. greta? there is so much sen trace on the southern routes, indian ocean with the p-8s and p-3s and the images from these satellites is anyone paying aany attention to that northbound route. i m sure somebody is paying attention to the northern route. our sources tell us they are focusing right now on the southern route. in fact, they are sort of catching their breath after the initial first week where they were scouring even looking for run whys out in the middle of nowhere. again, the focus right now on the southern corridor. nothing very positive coming out of that search at this point. indeed. i go back to the fact that the odds are that it s in the indian ocean, in the south. the odds are never evidenced. at least not in court. jennifer, thank you. and now so-called ghost plane theory. the wall street journal investigating whether it s even possible that that 777 kept flying if the pilots became exas at a timed.
start. but we ve talked about a needle in the hay stack. right now we re looking at a needle in nebraska. we may find a needle in a hay field, but once we find the hay stack, then i m quite confident f we do it in the next few weeks when the pingers are operational, we ll be able to find it, particularly if the u.s. navy send has fleet of their p 3s to that area. we have a few new areas. but the orions, we have 150 in inventory. we could get dozens of those to that area, couple dozen, anyway, quickly. sean, we ve been told we have 29 vessels out there searching and that 25 of them are pursuing this southern arc. four are pursuing the northern arc. seems those in the know believe that this plane went south and may indeed be in the south indian ocean. i think you re exactly right. i think is where the search needs to concentrate. based on the data that we have now, we have to go on what we
completely different set of coordinates to take this thing well away from where we re looking right now. don, on the floating runway thing, about the station time, there has been progress made today. i understand the reporting that malaysia is asking for u.s. refueling capability, so that should help the amount of time these aircraft are able to stay on station. p-8s can be refueled in flight, the p-3s cannot be refueled in flight. if you re sending an aircraft carrier, you re sending a lot more assets down there, because you re sending a carrier group. when we come back, we ll check in with cnn s martin savidge and keep your questions coming.
concrete idea whether they re looking in the right place. but again, you go back and look at what we do know, megyn, for example the plane took off heading towards beijing, which was kind of northeast. we now know that it took a southern turn. and when you take a southern route, particularly this case it took a southwest route that is consistent with where this debris or potential debris was spotted. so that is encouraging from that standpoint. but again, that is just one more situation that has to be checked out thoroughly. and we shouldn t get our hopes up over this being debris. but it is going to be so difficult to find, even the equipment we got, the p 8, the p 3s, they re magnificent weapons systems, one source told me you can spot a beer can under water. so if it is there i think ultimately we ll find it. thank you, sir.