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And we have cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes with us. to you first, david gallo, how do you think the searchers, the investigators, were able to narrow this search zone? i think that s a good question. i had that same question myself. i m assuming they did it by where they found the most debris and sadly the most bodies floating on the surface of the sea. and really that s it? i believe so unless they have other data at least that i m not aware of. it surprises me they were able to reduce it that much given that the wind and waves have been blowing things around for song so long. but it is good for them. definitely. we re hearing from indonesian officials that some people were reportedly still in their seats, that there were three people that they found who were in a row of seats. ....
Bottom. i m sure the engines and the landing gear they re probably staying put because they re incredibly heavy objects. something smaller can be drifting around. at the surface, every minute of every day, every second of every day, those items are moving north, south, east and west depending on their shape and size and the wind speed and the current speed. so that s very dynamic. it s not only in the north, south, east and west it s also up and down in the water column. so it s an accident seen with the wind and currents moving all the elements every second of every day. gentlemen, thank you very much. david gallow tim taylor and ken christensen, i appreciate your insight as this recovery goes on. for more on the victims of airasia 8501 and how their families are coping please visit cnn.com/airimpact. stand by for the new sanctions against north korea ....
Jacuzzi. they still may have a very hard time trying to trace backward how are the winds on each day in the eight, nine days that have passed how have they changed? where were they? what was the direction, velocity? it makes it very difficult. if you lose your aerial capability that s a huge piece to lose. are you surprised, david soucie that there hasn t been more wreckage found floating or even some that may have washed ashore at this point? i would expect some to be washing ashore at this point. but with the weather as bad as it is i don t know if they can people that can get out there to look at the shore from the outside. i m not that surprised by now just because of the lack of access. david gallo, when you have sonar detection of something that searchers want to check out or a device really detects anything under water, what are the next steps from there? sonar intimates with sound. and it takes talent to be able ....
Would have broke up. that s what it indicates to me. before, if you remember we had the emergency exit and below that we had the slide. the door that peter was just looking at there that looks strange, the floor piece, to me that looks like the cover for the emergency exit on the side of the aircraft which is that slide that comes out and opens. it looks very much like that to me because it is a slightly triangular shape and exterior and then an interior would be that other color. i think that s what i m looking at there. so many may be more of an indication that there was no attempt certainly to exit the plane by people who were in it? yeah that that slide would have deployed there through that door. okay. david gallo, we were talking about this probable area, the new probable area. it s 2,000 square miles. that s still a considerable amount of area to be searching. how long do you think that will take? well it would take if it was deepwater, it would take a ....
Easy and there s still no guarantee of success. so much work to be done and as you said no guarantee of success. tom foreman, thank you. i want to bring in aviation consultant and retired lieutenant colonel ken christensen. we also have sea operations special ilsist timothy taylor and gary gather. david, i want to ask you the first question here. you helped successfully narrow the search zone to locate air france 447. we just saw tom explaining that and just how deep the water was there. but this new probable search area for flight 8501 we re talking 2,000 square miles at this point. how long does it take to search this area and how do they narrow it down to that area? well i think they ve used probably a combination of all the clues of what they found at the surface in terms of bodies and things like that and maybe incorporating a bit about the current and the wind drifts to get some idea. ....