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He had been in the area for 6,000 flying hours. that is a lot of experience. so you know it is a question of whether you get caught out in one of these storm cells or not. you know the speculation and that is what analysts have been doing, speculating as to what happened. most people seem to think it is a weather-related incident. there could be other factors involved. i just want to put one fact out there. that is the aircraft had a fuel range that would allow the aircraft to go up to 600 miles or so from the point at which it last disappeared. at the moment the search area is 240 by 240 nautical miles. so there is an outside possibility it could in fact be outside of the general search ....
Traffic control like it used to in the military. the windows on the side are very big and aminable to visual searches if it s necessary and has a great fuel range at a lower or high altitude. there so many planes in the area that the ability to communicate is coming in and can save a lot of time on the search. we are answering your questions on the mystery of flight 370 fs. the 50 of your question, can a plane land perpendicular like divers so there is hardly any debris left floating like a stalling issue? it s an interesting question. if that happened, it was going in as a solid piece. if you look at flight 447, it didn t have a lot of air speed, ....
In the airplane, you re going to start going to the nearest suitable airport in a descent. when the captain set the altitude he wanted to descend to initially, it s probably going to be 12,000 feet, probably going to use an even number like that. if the auto pilot failed, that would splan the wiexplain the ws in altitude we saw earlier. fast forward to this debris, that debris is spotted, that is a very long distance in the indian ocean. if they slowed the airplane down to 250 knots, it would fly almost the same amount of time it would fly at a higher altitude but it s going to go a lot slower to extend the fuel range. the airplane may have climbed back up on its own because it was trimmed for a high speed or ....
And will keep going as long as we re needed out there. lieutenant levy, thank you very much. we appreciate it. good luck to you guys out there. i want to tackle some viewer questions now. i ll ask you this one, this one is from mikey kay. if the plane dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000, what would have been its fuel range. i m not sure if you know that. it is a great question. i think what we re now seeing at the moment is contradictory reporting. what we re seeing is noncomplementary information. to the point, if the aircraft dropped to 12,000 feet and is heading westbound toward the malacca strait, we know that the lower an aircraft goes, the less efficient it becomes in terms of endurance and what that would do is bring into question whether a boeing 777 could make it down into the area that all this effort is being focused on off the southwestern tip of australia. noncomplementary in that ....
Pakistan. would it have the fuel range to go here and there? it s about a 7,000-mile range as i understand the boeing 777. that s certainly one factor. would it have the fuel? like that would be the flight path, am i right? yeah, it would. there are bigger factors, sean, at play to why i don t think that s a very realistic scenario. we ll explain that when we come back. michael kay will join us with lieutenant general thomas mcinerney. they ll discuss whether the plan could have landed in pakistan. you ve been sending your questions about the search for the missing airplane. we ll answer those questions as those breaking news edition of hannity continues straight ahead. ron: i m never alone with scottrade. i can always call or stop by my local office. they re nearby and ready to help. so when i have questions, ....