and, greg, we have had airplanes in the new search area spot debris. we don t know whether it s from the airplane or not. but as of yet we haven t been able to actually go with a ship and retrieve any debris from the ocean. what will the sort of logistical challenges that they re running into from spotting something from an airplane to actually going and retrieving it? well, the one thing about spotting from an airplane now is that they re able to drop buoys, they re seeing it from the airplane rather than trying to figure out where it is on a satellite photo. that s the good thing because now they have an accurate location. the problem is is that a lot of the assets, sea-based assets, are spread out and so now it s just a matter of time to get them into that new search zone so they can actually get eyes on whatever that debris is. and we have to be cautious because the pictures that have come back early on from the aerial observation, those big square pieces, while they don t have
so until they retrieve it they won t know for sure if any of that is from flight 370 and to date we still have no concrete evidence, concrete meaning physical evidence, that flight 370 went down in this area and guess what? it s now three weeks three weeks since flight 370 with all of those people on board disappeared from kuala lumpur to beijing. guys, back to you. tom costello, thanks so much. we now bring back to the show former ntsb investigator greg feith. we now have v two search areas, the old one and the new one. is it possible that these two could in any way be related? could they both have wreckage from the same plane or is the distance just too far apart? i think logically the distance is too far apart plus the currents aren t flowing in a northerly flow, they re flowing south from the old search site so it would be very remote if, in fact, this debris is anything related to the first search
and they realized that this is going to be a losing battle in terms of weather. that s not why they moved it, but the battle with the weather was making it incredibly difficult to spot anything. the good news is further north they have better weather. so they re hoping now that based on these new calculations and based on these sightings that they ve had from the new zealand air crews that they may be on to something in this area. it is still a good flight out. you re still talking a thousand miles or so just to get throughout from perth. so it s not an easy ride out, right? you re still talking about a three-hour flight to get out to this area and search it. meanwhile, they still have shut assets moving into this area, the chinese and australians moving in with their naval ships hoping they can spot something and pull it out because we have seen debris floating in this area. satellite images from the thais, the french, the australians, the chinese but none of that yet has been confirm
optimistic, possibly, that this new search zone may present us with some new debris to look at, it may be that this is still another part of this floating junk that happens to be in that part of the world. greg, we re three weeks out from the crash, the transmitters on the black boxes are supposed to last about a month. what are the hopes of recovering them the next then nine days if we don t find the site and we re not able to search for them yet. they do have an underwater listening device that s on station there. they just don t have a ship to pull it through that particular area and it probably won t be there for several days. so we re, again, now we re really critical in racing against the clock and trying to get some listening device under water. but, again, we don t know where that main wreckage debris is and we don t know how far, if this is, in fact, a piece of debris. we don t know how far it s floated so it s going to be real difficult to pinpoint an area. greg feith,
it is, as you can see, a good distance north of the old search zone and here are these tracks. track a, track b, track c, or y, y, z, so now it s a matter of trying to define what is in the search zone. because we have had these reports specifically most recently from new zealand saying their aerial teams spotted some debris in the water. now, we don t know if what they spotted was debris if the aircraft or it s just more floating debris because there is a lot of that floating in this area of the indian ocean. the good news is by moving the search zone north, if this is an accurate idea for the debris might be, you are cutting the flight time out of perth, australia. the other good news is by moving at 700 miles to a thousand miles north you re out of this extremely volatile ocean area here between the indian ocean and the southern ocean which is called the roaring 40s because of the longitude and latitude. it s about 44 degrees south.