and in this scenario, we re talking about if there were survivors, then i would say well, why weren t the doors open with the slide rafts deployed? and the slide rafts have emergency locator transmitters, elts. they would have been thrown into the water. i find it highly unlikely. i guess if you re in some scenario where you re flying the plane and the only person alive. correct. mary, does this add up? as you just saw in david mattingly s reporting, a plane hitting the ground and hitting the water at these kinds of speeds, unless it s a very controlled landing, is essentially the same thing. but if there are pieces as in almost any scenario other than the one he said, and even that one is dicey. i ll get to why in a moment, they haven t found any. how come? well, there are many reasons why they might not have found any. first of all, the sunny that les just talked about. but with so much time passing between when they actually got to the area where they believe
while the search in the indian ocean intensifies, one expert points out this possibility. what if flight 370 ended up on land? to help you understand what you re about to hear, know the term elt stands for emergency locating transmitter. my contention is that maybe we should increase the search back over land. really? from the standpoint of the elts not activating with the salt water. you know, the slide rafts would have them one of them at least well, our experts believe 777s carry two to four locating transmitters. i want to test this concept. martin, this plane is supposed to have around 8,000 feet of runway to land. but could it have landed on a
that was encouraging. we all remember more recently the miracle on the hudson. so is it possible to survive one of these incidents? yes, it is. when we think about the size of the objects that have been detected by multiple country s satellite assets right now, i would invite you to go online and take a look at the slides for 777 and they are almost a match for size seen floating. slide rafts that deploy automatically. perhaps we have slides out there. for all of us that fly, if you find yourself in this situation, lashing together gives a bigger picture so people can look at satellite imagery and see it. my point is this. we have lots of theories. many of them not many but some say it s possible to have survivors. i was very pleased to see
from the standpoint of the elts not activating with the salt water, the slide rafts would have them in them. that for you is a big red flag, why those elts. we ve heard from a number of pilots today or folks we re actually going to have a piece about elts later on. a lot of people raising the question, the elts why didn t they go off because there are multiple ones. there is. and the slide rafts, i don t know how this airplane is configured. but there could be some that were in the overhead bins, too, strapped down. david gallo, excuse me david souci, are you skeptical about this debris given the amount of time? because of the amount of time, i m concerned if it was a wing, it s a tapered wing. and the center spars of that wing are very heavy compared to the tip of that wing. so the fact that it would be flat enough to be seen in that configuration concerns me a little bit. i would think that wing would have tilted toward the heavy side, which could keep it afloat but it woul
good they are. a lot of the u.s. s latest military equipment on display out there as well, including the p.a. we have talked about this a bit, and you said it would be a mistake not to keep looking on land despite this huge deployment now and real focus in the south indian ocean. why is that? i firmly believe that. i m not sure the configuration was, but i m almost certain that the slide rafts in a ditching situation are provision with emergency locater transmitters. these elts, when they hit salt water, are activated. once they are activated they should send a signal to emergency frequency and a satellite, which would give them latitude and longitude. we don t have that information. so when they hit the water, they don t just send a ping in the water you have to listen for with a ship or something or a plane. they would send a signal to a satellite.