is the scenter tank below th passenger area is rarely used. how much fuel was in here at the time of the flight? the fuel and ttank was basic empty and 50 gallons is what they calculate to be the residual amount. only a thin layer of fuel on the bottom, but the fumes were more than enough to bring down the plane. that is the stuff to ignite and rapidly burn. ntsb investigator shows us what happened. this takes place in a matter of a second? very much less than a second. when the tank exploded brenna and crista were right up here near coach, right near here. where were they sitting? right over the center fuel tank. what do you think happened to them? i d like to think, and i think that it happened
passenger area is rarely used. how much fuel was in here at the time of the flight? the fuel tank was basically empty and 50 gallons is what they calculate to be the residual amount. only a thin layer of fuel on the bottom, but the fumes were more than enough to bring down the plane. that is the stuff to ignite and rapidly burn. ntsb investigator shows us what happened. this takes place in a matter of a second? very much less than a second. when the tank exploded brenna and crista were right up here near coach, right near here. where were they sitting? right over the center fuel tank. what do you think happened to them? i d like to think, and i think that it happened instantly.
individual investigators carefully and ask them whether they agree that there was a missile and whether they agree that it has been covered up, they ll start to get awfully weak. for instance, hank hughes, a former ntsb investigator, who i know well, his major complaint is, the fbi treated him poorly. and that goes under the news of dog bites mailman. the fbi treats everyone they work with poorly. and we had problems like that but there is no evidence whatsoever. these guys cherry-picked their facts, i can point to the china lake report on potential missile explosions, they are unambiguous and clear didn t happen. is it possible at all that any information was suppressed during the original investigation, a news release for the documentary claims the investigators featured in the film waited until retirement to come forward and were not allowed to speak to the public. that s a quote from the release, or refute the ntsb at the time
i m joined by the former ntsb investigator and he was in charge of the agency s go team for nearly ten years. thank you for being with us. it s been a long past couple of days for you. as an investigator what are your questions given the fact that we had the two full days of searching. it s been called off until daylight and no detection of anything so far. well, there s a question that i have. we talked about with mh 370 the data burst that would go by way of satellite back down to the airline. nobody has talked about the data that came off the a-card to supplement the radar data we have in looking for an exact place to focus the search effort. that s a question i would be asking right now. to see if they can t hone down the search area. with the weather limitations they have they don t have the time really to expend a lot of resources searching the entire java sea. you re saying that will
the flight path. we know that the pilot had asked to reroute because of those strong thunderstorms along the way. so weather a big part of this story. alex, back to you. thank you so much for that. so here s what we know about the plane itself. it is an airbus a320 200 series delivered six years ago back in 2008. the plane had about 23,000 flight hours in some 13,600 flights. now the a-320 itself is a short to medium range jet. has a range of about 3700 miles. let s bring in two aviation experts to try to shed some light on what has happened to this air asia flight. ntsb investigator now aviation analyst and anthony roman and faa licensed commercial pilot and former flight instructor. gentlemen, i welcome you both back to the broadcast. we ve been covering this story all day. greg, you just heard about the weather in that area. does it give you a greater sense of what likely may have happened here? well with the description