Focus of the investigation is on whatever was going on in the cockpit. either the two pilots or someone who might have been able to get access to the cockpit. perhaps was able to do something to bring the plane down. the malaysian authorities seem to be reacting to that part of their investigation. we don t know what they found and they haven t released any of that publicly. we know that there is a lot of focus on the two pilots and the safety procedures in the cockpit. . i want to continue the conversation with captain darby. you think about the security measures and we take them for granted here in the united states. surprising to you that maybe a pilot was left alone and a cockpit door was not secured. what is your take? not unusual outside and more
For 30 years, also president of kit darby. in seattle rob mccollum back with me. ocean search specialist and search expedition leader. okay, gentlemen. as you just saw this great technology, cutting edge technology with this ship and with the u.s. pinger on board, there s a lot of hope. rob, the point can t be overstated if you don t have the impact zone located, then some of that technology cannot be put to its best use. what is the greatest hope from the ship once it arrives in the search zone area on thursday. there s not a lot of hope as you heard the leader saying. they have to be on top of the wreckage, the black box not to hear it. the pingers designed to locate it black box in the wreckage zone.
If you have wreckage spread over a mile or two, it helps hone into the black box itself. it was never designed to locate wreckage in a wider search area. you would have to be right on top of it. even when we find the first debris from mh 370, that will be some hundreds of miles from the original impact point and it may take weeks or months to run those undulations all the way back to give us the underwater search area that we need. then captain darby, we have satellite imagery that shows what the weather has been like recently in the past 48 hours and how things might be looking. relatively clear, a calmer area where this latest search is taking place. but at the same time, you know, if the weather doesn t cooperate, if the conditions aren t right, you can t put this great technology to its best use. winter is coming. so we re going to have not only
Because of that looming deadline, a ship carrying a u.s. pinger locater and undersea certainly equipment will leave for the search zone a few hours from now and expected to arrive thursday to that search area. lets bring back our panel of analysts, captain darby, clive and stephen wood. welcome back to all of you gentlemen. we ve been talking about the search located in 128,000 jury mile area in the southern indian ocean. tom, is there any reason to definitively believe this is still the right search area. why can t it be the plane or debris might be spotted further north in that other trajectory? could be. fredricka, we are all, especially me, because this is not my area of expertise, we re all relying on what the experts have said is their best calculation. that s all we can do is hope they are right.
Retro navigation exercise and then have to deploy underwater assets to locate the rig. we could be in for a very long hall indeed. rob mccallum, captain darby, thanks so much, gentlemen. thank you. we re going to return to continuing coverage. meantime the first woman to oversee gm. she s headed to congress to answer questions about a recall for a deadly problem. will this moment define her legacy? dear sun, you created light. you are loved. celebrated. but things have changed since you got into this business. at philips, we re creating led light that people can color. adjust. even make beautiful sunsets. dear sun, you might be number one, but we re getting closer.