distraught and angry there would be no rescues, no debris. hour, a last hope remained. find the black boxes before they stop emit pings. you re not in an ivory tower. you haven t got the luxury of time. you ve got pingers that may expire. so you ve got to say, this is our best guess now. their best guess is a remote area more than twice the size of california. good morning. these are all the aircraft flying today. the australias take over the search. and soon after the australian ship lowers its towed pinger locator into the water, pings are detected. clearly, this is the most promising lead. wow, again. it was miraculous. they had just put the towed pinger locator in the water. i was convinced, this is it. they ve got the answer, it s
survived. family members were shocked. distraught and angry. there would be no rescues, no debris. now, a last hope remained. find the black boxes before they stop emitting pings. you re not in an ivory tower. you haven t got the luxury of time. you got pingers that may expire. so you ve got to say, this is our best guess now. their best guess is a remote area more than twice the size of california. good morning. these are all the aircraft
debris. now, a last hope remained. find the black boxes before they stop emitting pings. you re not in an ivory tower. you haven t got the luxury of time. you got pingers that may expire. so you ve got to say, this is our best guess now. their best guess is a remote area more than twice the size of california. good morning. these are all the aircraft flying today. the australians take over the search. and soon after the australian ship ocean shield lowers its towed pinger locator into the water, pings are detected. clearly this is a most promising lead. it was wow again. it was miraculous. they just put the towed pinger locator in the water. i was convinced this is it. they ve got the answer. it s a matter of days. a robotic submarine scours
over the alps. but also this map here where you saw the flight altitude go straight down. let me give you a better indication of what that truly looks like from our guys at flightwise.com. the flight path, the distance, the pingers and all the data we get, able to put right onto a map showing the plane coming out of barcelona and climbing, finally leveling off and very close to marseilles starting its descent. the descent looks more like this. not that big sharp drop-off. about 3,000 feet per minute. the irony is here, is if the pilots had a problem and they were ascending down to here, this is 100 miles from that spot to here. they coasted or whatever for 100 miles. marseilles s airport, 11,000 feet long was only 30 miles away. they could have diverted to that airport. but they didn t. did they even know they were on their way down? if the clouds were in here and
plane. so the people combing there this are going to have a very difficult time indeed. the black boxes have pingers on them so they ll be able to track them down probably fairly easily. but even that could be difficult especially if it starts snowing and this all gets covered with a couple of inches or a foot of snow or something like that. it s going to be a very complicated effort. and you have to hike in here. this is not a place i understand from some of the locals that you have you can drive to a point about 45 minutes away on foot from where the crash site is. so the rescuers and the searchers will have to walk in or else be dropped from helicopters as they were a few hours ago. ashleigh? right. it s those helicopters that you have to be so concerned about when the weather is inclement like this. you have a low cloud ceiling, you have to be extraordinarily careful of that. karl penhaul, jim bittermann, thank you for that. stand by. i have a comment from the white house.