123,000 square miles. you know, captain darby, when we talk about the 777, a plane made up of 3 million pieces as we heard rene marsh reporting earlier, it would seem if it went down anywhere in that indian ocean, some of those pieces, hundreds if those thousands of those pieces have the potential to float somewhere in the indian ocean and would have been spotted by satellite imagery or a plane flyover. it does seem so many pieces if we were in the right place would see something, every life vest, plastic bottle with a top on it for the past 20 years. there s so much that could potentially float even after being waterlogged, a three weeks, four week period of time. plastic doesn t show effects for years to degrade. something should be spotted. it s discouraging everything we ve found so far has been
Its best use here? i think the hope is rapidly fading the pinger will be affected. after all you ve got to, as one of the naval people said, you ve got to find the impact point. debris is the starting point, the endpoint. the key part is to find impact. it s only there where you ll have any chance at all of finding crucial information. captain darby, help us understand how this technology would work. you were describing to me you re talking about technology that can detect this pinger if it s 20,000 feet away. however, you ve got to be right on top of it. it s not the idea ofette has to be in the vicinity and direct it and hopefully somewhere along the way you can detect the pinger. have you to know where the impact is, black box is. you ve got to be on top of it. the sound, we re trying to listen basically. we re under water.
Can t make things up, you have to relay the situation as it stands. rob, clearly, i think everyone can understand, emphasize how painful it is for loved ones of anyone on board this flight. we heard from an interview earlier last week, one of the loved ones who said she stopped watching the news. it s just too tormenting. you can t blame them, can you? it s a very difficult time. absence of tangible proof makes it worse. in the case of air france, even though it was clear what happened to the aircraft, two years after the event when it was located and black boxes recovered, the sense of closure from the relatives of those that were lost was palpable, quite something to see. so captain darby, i wonder,
Been looking for, all the adrenaline starts to run and people get excited and that s where the professional aspect comes n. the first thing you ve got to do is fly the aircraft. not everyone can have their eyes out the window, because you might disor yep at a time yourself. when the visibility reduces, you can get what s called the goldfish bowl effect and that s when the horizon effectively disappea disappears and the air matches with the sea. and so it s absolutely key that the safety of the airplane is paramount and the right people looking out to get the right evidence. colonel kay and captain kit darby, thank you. and nick mallos, we lost his signal. we will get back with him for sure. satellites have sent searchers in circles, say the very least. it s a simple question. why can t you just zoom in, pan to the left, pan to the right and find out what the pieces are. turns out there is a very good explanation for that, and it s not just national security. there are different kin
These this picture described it. the crews took various photographs of multiple different objects, various colors, images going to be analyz analyzed overnight. joining me to talk about the significance of the latest sightings is lieutenant colonel michael kay, former adviser to the u.k. ministry of defense, also a pilot himself and trained in radar specialties, especially. former commercial airline pilot, kit darby, live, and marine debris specialist, nick mallos, as well. captain darby, i want you to tell me, first of all, for those pilots who went out to this new zone, there a lot the layperson doesn t know about, about what their job is like. it s not just flying. you re flying low and dangerous, and there s a lost monotony to it that you have to train to overcome. yeah, it s a dangerous combination. if you re down low and get bored, the ground water in this case is just a few feet away. so we re going very fast. the ground, which in this case, the water and the sky are a sim