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Definitively where the aircraft came down, only that the direction of travel is almost certainly to the south. and another point he said, almost they can t say definitively that it didn t go up to the north, this is just their assessment right now. on the basis of that, they have alerted all of the family members that their loved ones were dead. yeah, they were pretty heavy into the hedge in that interview with you. it really has not changed anything. miles o brien is here. miles, they obviously have to know more, the british, inmarsat, australians, chinese than they are letting on. for the prime minister to tell all of these loved ones, the passengers, they are dead? are they hanging this entirely on the inmarsat information? what about those from the classified world which they ....
Staging that the 777 have 7 hours of fuel and it most likely went into the indian ocean. i m not an expert. i m simply saying that that does look the inevitable experience. miles o brien, most likely for these families is not good enough. no, it s not. most likely is not good enough. i suppose he s correct to say most likely but, you know, these loved ones need a more definitive answer. i m not blaming inmarsat. i m just wondering why the prime minister of malaysia would send out a text message to the families saying, they are dead. this has been mishandled on so many levels and the way the families have been treated is really scandalous. it s just a horrible situation for them to be in. the other question that i have is the range. if it was down at 12,000 feet, the range would have been ....
Have been heartbreaking. i know this news must be harder still. reporter: 17 days after the 777 jet vanished, the conclusion came from not new evidence but deeper examination of the clues that experts have been pouring over for days. after an exhaustive and unprecedented study, inmarsat concluded that pings received from the plane in the final hours placed it, without question, over the southern indian ocean, ruling out the northern arc that had at one point been considered a path for the plane. if you look at the plots that we have, we can say that the most likely route is the south and the most likely ending is in roughly the area that they are looking now. reporter: the new data comes as search aircraft spotted possible debris in the southern corridor area, including one ....
In the water before making this analysis? you heard from inmarsat, they can t say it s perfect. well, that s a central question that i can t answer. why the decision was made today to make this public announcement indicates to me that someone has a lot of confidence in the method. i would be very interesting in understanding how inmarsat came to their conclusion in being open and as we can get the scientific community peer reviewed. the plane went up to 45,000, down to 23, up to 30,000 and then down to 12,000. you can t do that on autopilot. someone is going to be either under force or willingly has to do that. what are you hearing on the altitude shifts? well, the thing that the americans thought is we are kind of skeptical at this. we re relying on malaysian ....
Autopilot, can it shift up to altitudes of 40,000, down to 15, up to 35, down to 12, back up to 35,000 and fly another six hours? does that make sense? i think mark made an important point about this. if it had gone down to 12,000 altitude which your story and reports has said it did at one point at least and if it continued on for the rest of the flight at that altitude, it would have swallowed much more gas than if it was at 30,000 feet which means it wouldn t have gone as far as we think it went. inmarsat people have said that they don t have accurate information on the altitude of the plane. can a plane on autopilot shift altitude, mark? no. really what you re doing if you breakdown the term, autopilot, it s staying where you put it. so the point being, if it goes down to 12,000 as it goes ....