were found. and the weather there, it s deteriorating in this search area. australian officials say this operation will continue. a multi-national flotilla is forming to search the southern corridor there where really we ve been focusing here now, especially after the satellite images came out. norwegian cargo ship is already there having been diverted. australia, malaysia, china, all sending ships to what some people are calling the most remote areas on the planet. the fbi is examining the flight simulator taken from the home of the plane s captain along with the hard drives from the pilots and copilots computers. we want to bring in tom fuentes from washington, former fbi says about director. and lucas of the scripps institution of oceanography joins us now from california. first, let s talk about these new satellite images being released. they were taken on tuesday. i want to ask you, luca, how far
help find air france flight 447 after it kracrashed in june 200. two years later, a search team from woods hole located the wreckage of the jet about 2 1/2 miles beneath the surface. after months of searching. something only possible because of this underwater robot. this is the initial shot of the air france debris field captured by the remus 6,000. there were obvious signs that this was from the plane. one team member first in theed a backpack on the ocean floor belonging tos a passenger. closer images revealed the plane s engine. one of the wings, even the landing gear. before you put one of these vehicles in the water you have to narrow down the search area. the team from here searched 5,000 square miles for the air france flight and it still took them more than 100 attempts to find the debris, and that is just a fraction of the area that they re looking at for flight 370. and while the team here with their underwater robots is ready
that. the horizontal and vertical stabilizer t in the back of the plane, they re about 35 feet long, and that piece doesn t jive with that. the fuselage i think is about 20 feet wide. so what we re looking a really doesn t matchup to any section, wing stabilizer of the airplane. so i m not really sure what it is. can i ask you something quickly? we did get somebody on twitter who said that aircraft skins are built to flex when pressurized. this could be the fuselage folded out flat. is that a possible or no, are you saying no? i say no. okay. first off, fuselages expand but you re talking about it s a composite metal structure. there s a skin on the outside and on the inside they have metal ribs. so, yes, sections of them could float. sections of the wing could float. some of them made of composite with honeycomb in between.
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about. could be a family member, we re running late, it could be anything. it could be somebody in china who is going to be meeting the plane when they land and have dinner together or breakfast together or something. so the pilot s report that they often make these last-minute calls because once that door shuts and they re airborne they re going to be in there oh, the cockpit, for six, seven, eight hours and unable to talk to other friends or family on the ground. bobbie, what would you say are some of the challenges in this part of the ocean in terms of searching? we ve seen the planes go out, they re coming back, as far as we know so far pretty empty handed. well, the big challenge that we have in that part of the ocean is the depth of water. we re looking at approximately 16,000 feet of water, which is going to make it very difficult. we re going to have to use the equipment that you showed previously. the equipment that is rated at 20,000 feet of water.