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Ocean currents and waves, clouds and rain. and they all that displaces the debris from where it was photographed on the 16th of march. the currents will move the debris towards the east, maybe a little bit north and east, about 12 miles a day. so then you have in the system that disperse, make for an irregular trajectory. then you have the waves. i worked in that area in the past and it s quite characteristic of having pretty high waves and the waves will move the debris in addition to the ocean currents. towards probably the northeast. then but the other thing the waves cause a problem is that they have white caps, the wind is strong, the waves are ....
Breaking and that limits the visibility from ships at sea and even from the aircraft. so it s going to be a challenge to find that. but it s about a 15,000 square mile area, sort of to the east and perhaps northeast of where they spotted it. large area, but they can cover that in an aircraft. so the first challenge and it s a big one is to find these two pieces which were about 14 miles apart. if they are found and identified as being part of the missing airliners, then you ve got an even bigger challenge to work backwards and figure out where how the ocean flowed and where the rest of the debris and hopefully the black box might be. this is really, really a very difficult detective search. yes, it is. and exactly right. once they know that s the debris in the aircraft, then and they know, of course the latitude and long tud where they photographed on the 16th, then ....
Press. i m getting my news directly from my contacts in the media here in beijing. are you satisfied with the australian search, the prime minister coming out saying the two pieces of debris and what are the thoughts about these very large pieces that certainly could be part of a wing? well, i m certainly hoping that they are not part of a wing because if they are, then that takes away the hope that the plane is hiding someplace with the survivors alive on it, which what i ve held from the beginning. i am glad to have the australians involved. i trust them. i think they will do and disclose what they say they are going to do. and that s a reassuring piece, but i can t believe that that s actually going to be the outcome. is the united states doing enough, we have very advanced aircraft now in the search, but do you feel the united states is throwing in enough at this to ....
That does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. my colleague, ronan far row has a look at what s next on ronan farrow daily. great show today. i ll like forward to the carter interview. thank you. stay with us today as well. ahead on quts roen n ronan far, no sign of debris. it is day 14 and we re going to recap and look how the choppy seas off aus trailing i cantral search. michelle obama and her mother and daughters are taking china by storm. does it gloss over china s real human rights abuses. i ll sit down and talk about that issue along with an important milestone for twitter coming right up. to prove that a febreze car vent clip ....
She wants to keep the hope alive and her hope alive would be the northern track, the plane was taken up and ended up understandably. absolutely, a country that may be hos pitable to enemies of the united states or what have you. the reason they are focusing on the southern track because of the satellite pings that suggested a track to the north and they believe that would put it in the southern hemisphere. in addition to that, the spot they found the satellite photos, it s almost an x on the map of the intersection between where the fuel was expected to run out of the plane and the last ping. it s really extraordinary. if these photos do indeed show debris from the plane, that s an incredible piece of detective work. as bill points out, also entirely possible we re looking at flooting debris in a part of the world that s become the world s junkyard for so much ....