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Correspondent joins me now to sift through some of the more credible theories here. i want to get to the size and the dimensions one more time. we have to try to understand this. while we don t know what it is, are those dimensions within range of it being a piece of the plane? it s pretty big to be a chunk of a plane. the long direction, almost 100 feet. that s the distance from home plate to first base. it s a good throw. on the other hand, the wing is about that. the wingspan of a 777 is 200 feet. right. one wing, that would match up. a wing, by the way, is something that didn t have fuel in it and might not have because they were running off the center fuel tank, would float. there s a glimmer of hope for the investigation, not hope for the families. it s sad news for the families, but it could be a piece of this plane. you don t know until you get there. some time is going to go by. ....
Moved. this helped the search and rescue teams to look in the right place and, of course, for the families, it s more anxious waiting, worrying. they wake up every day hoping to hear news and not hearing anything or we get satellite images. betty? that s right. it s been a bit of a roller coaster for the families. how are they getting the information? i know they had to sign paperwork saying they wanted to be the first to know. that came 12 or 13 days after the plane went missing. it s incredible, if you think about it. reporter: that s right. very many relatives are unhappy with the way they have been treated. they have been given counselors and some efforts. you have seen some of the emotional scenes. angry relatives shouting at malaysia airline officials demanding to ask more questions, even if there aren t answers. ....
Until somebody looks at the thing, we have no idea what it is. they are saying this image was taken four days ago, march 18th. 75 miles west of where australia spots debris and pictures two days prior. when you look at this part of the ocean, is it possible an object could travel a distance like that in a two-day period? i have been watching some of the meteorologists and oceanographers talking about the currents and this transpolar current, i think they call it. yes, that is certainly within the realm of possibility for it to drift that distance in the time span we are talking about. i want to get to this, too. the plane s black boxes will only send pings for two more weeks before they run out of batteries. it took two years to find the black boxes for air frances flight. should they have longer battery life given their importance? ....
This long span of travel distance from where it started and to where they are zeroing in on the search, what could it possibly have been? you know, i have talked to an awful lot of my friends and acquaintances in the airline business and none of us can come up with a scenario of how the airplane would get there. it just doesn t make sense. if that s where they want to look, fine. it is very difficult to construct a scenario that is remotely reasonable that would get the airplane down there. the scenarios you would have to focus on are scenario that is involved a high level of psychotic action. you sound skeptical these objects in this search zone could be remnants of that plane. i m afraid, i am. thank you so much for your insight. we appreciate it. good morning. nbcs bill neilly joins me ....
In keir s report from kuala lumpur, night fall is falling there. it will be awhile before they can see with their eyes. if these new satellite images turn out to be wreckage from flight 370, just say it is, it s not at this point, but say it is. what changes should we expect to see so planes don t disappear off the radar map? that s interesting. even if we never solve this, in the case of crashes, there s lessons learned. that s when legislation and regulations happen after the sering intensity of a crash investigation. even if we don t know what happened, already, it suggests things about tracking planes better, about whether you should hook these black boxes up to a realtime up load to a satellite of the information as the plane is flying along. there are a lot of things to think about, improving the pingers, should we figure out a ....