calculations this debris could have traveled that far after the plane went missing? absolutely. and, i am wishing i had richard for a professor when i was in graduate school. that would have made it all very easy to understand. but, yeah well within reason. and the question is to backtrack. and i m sure, beginning already, there is probably teams of modelers out there trying to figure out where the piece came from so many, 500 some odd days ago. that s the important part. where is the, the x marks the spot. couldn t have come at a better time, anderson. the teams are in for the winter months. the teams, the ships are in. they re exhausted. they have been out there. having been there myself, knowing what it is look to spend months at sea, not find what you are lacking f ilooking for. the boost they need to give them the first tangible evidence there is a plane missing some part in that indian ocean. riffe ed arichard, aren t th
out there for two months, and we were led to a, a place in the northwest quadrant of our search zone. where there was no aircraft. done by mathematical models, tret retrodrift and it was horrible. a case we had gone back over and over the models. the modelers were 90% positive the plane was in the box and no plain was anywhere near that box. i m totally with michael kaye on this. are you flabbergasted by this, having taken part in a number of investigations? i would imagine everyone, as the whole world is, but some people who have actually searched for airplanes and have seen airplanes, you know, go missing or crash, saying, it s know so surprising, but what s surprising, that this one completely disappeared from radar. 30-some, almost 30 d40 days in nothing, david. nothing? well, you know hmm. you ve got to have a lot of faith, again, in the people at sea and the people running this
like that from the sightings. david gallow, does it make sense to you that no debris has been found? when you get out there it is a big ocean and objects become very, very small. even ships and planes. and you know, i do wonder if the modelers have been looking at this location and forward casting from here to where those objects would have ended up if they originated where the ocean shield is today. that would give you an idea of where the debris field is. david gallo, you raised a good point. i spent this past week in the pacific diving on wrecks of world war ii planes on a story i m working on for 60 minutes on a story completely unrelated to this. once you re out there it changes your perspectivrspective. once you re out on the ocean you realize how huge it is and how
like now. we were in the south china sea and someone said, no no, no, no. and everybody rushes down there. and now it s north. so we all rush up there together. and it s as if we don t have even an inkling about where we really feel confident that this airplane might be. and i got to tell you, i still think we did not exhaust the search on land. it s that simple. tim, you know, he brings up a good point. four weeks in. how worried were you that the odds of solving this mystery are decreasing? if i was in vegas, i guarantee this is one of those mysteries. even when they find the debris. it s four weeks later. even the best modelers cannot work this debris back to an impact zone without more data. if the satellite information is incomplete or can t lead us there, this is going to be
and someone said, no no, no, no. and everybody rushes down there. and now it s north. so we all rush up there together. and it s as if we don t have even an inkling about where we really feel confident that this airplane might be. and i got to tell you, i still think we did not exhaust the search on land. it s that simple. tim, you know, he brings up a good point. four weeks in. how worried were you that the odds of solving this mystery are decreasing? if i was in vegas, i guarantee this is one of those mysteries. even when they find the debris. it s four weeks later. even the best modelers cannot work this debris back to an impact zone without more data. if the satellite information is incomplete or can t lead us there, this is going to be finding your way back this far out from the event, is going to