it becomes in terms of endurance. it would bring into question whether a boeing 777 could make it down to the area that all of the focus has been on. so, they re noncomplementary in that respect. what i would like to see in the investigation, is trying to think outside of the box, and corroborate with the evidence we got. and drawing a line back up to the last part of the ping. looking how long that would be. it s probably on the outer bounds of the endurance. it would have to fly close to singapore. they would use it as a leapfrog to get to europe. and through ind knees ya. are we getting radar traces from them? there s a lot of conflicting evidence going on. and the sad thing is, if we re talking about something in the south indian ocean, it makes the credibility of the search area.
respect. what i would like to see is try to think out the box and corroborate the evidence we have got in terms of drawing a line back from where the search is going back up to the last transponder ping, looking at how long that would be. probably on the outer bounds of the trouble 7s endurance and it would have to fly close to singapore. it would have to fly over indonesia and indonesian air space. are we getting evidence from them in terms of radar traces. so there is a lot of contradictory evidence going on. i think the sad thing about this is that if we are talking about something now over in the south indian ocean, it makes the credibility of the search in australia the short answer to the question is it would be double the fuel consumption practically of what it normally would have been to go to beijing at 12,000 feet. this is from renononos.
countries involved at the last count in this investigation. there s a lot of inconsistencies and at the diplomatic level there s a lot of inconsistencies. for example if you look at the radar traces between thailand, malaysia and indonesia, thailand or malaysia said they may have saw something in the malacca strait. indonesia say they saw absolutely nothing. then you mentioned china as well. 159 passengers on this aircraft out of 239. that s a significant proportion. so you would expect china to be more forthcoming in not only their search efforts but contributing financially and just sort of offering up more the intelligence and diplomatic levers that it could and we know it has. so i think this information coming from china is a good thing. again, you look at chinese satellites. china is always launching satellites in to orbit. in terms of the amount of satellites that s gone up there
i think that s a really great point. that s where we need to be going. i sat on two boards of inquiry and everyone s zoned in on this area. if it were me, i d be looking to collaborate through some other means. what i mean is if we go back to the last known point of the transponder ping, which was right in the middle of the south china sea, if you draw a direct line all wait to the potential crash area, it is consistent in terms of being on the outer fringes of a boeing 777 endures. so that is a positive. what i would say is there has been many inconsistencies with the way the radar traces have been picked up from malaysia, indonesia and thailand. i would be on the indonesians saying get me some traces and let s corroborate what we re seeing. it sounds like you re skeptical. open to ideas. all right. that s what we re looking for today. not sold yet. thank you very much. parts of the indian ocean more than 24,000 feet deep.
radar cross section in that it s an actual wide body jet. so when you put this thing something like 400 to 500 miles an hour and around 30,000 feet. if that isn t a flight plan to cross indonesian airspace, or not part of any traffic, that is what brings curiosity to radar controllers screens, when they see something that is unusual. this wouldn t have been part of any normal routine traffic going through any of the air corridors. it certainly wouldn t have a flight plan attached to it. i completely agree, this is something that we need to ask more questions of the indonesian government and indonesian military in going back through their radar traces and just see if there was anything unusual that would indicate that this debris might be the debris of 370 off the tip of australia.