美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-03-23(在线收听) |
There are many theories about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane but confirmed information is hard to come by. We\'ll tell you what we know today on CNN Student News. \"It\'s been 13 days since the flight with 239 people aboard vanished over Southeast Asia. There are 26 countries involved in the search. The area is almost 3 million square miles from eastern Europe to the southern Indian Ocean. It even extends to the pilot\'s house. A flight similarity was there and yesterday Malaysia official said some flies have been deleted from its hard drive. Investigators are trying to recover those to see if they hold any clues though it could be just another dead end. US official said the aircraft\'s most likely location is the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
The big complete area is still enormous. You are still talking an area where the size of the United States but the area they are focused on most today is about the size of Arizona. Remember, we\'ve talked you about these 2 acres out here, the northern and southern acres. This is along its southern arc and they are specifically focused on this area about 1,400 miles or so away from the west coast of Australia. It is a moving target by the way. This was bigger yesterday. You put it in a floor now and it was a little bit further to the west. But because of the drifting patterns and things like that, they adjusted it with the hours. This is all based on something from mathematics called B. theory which is basically saying as all your parameter has changed hour to hour, day to day in a search, you would adjust the probability of where you find it and now that the question had led them to focus most on this area. And one of the reason we know they are focusing on it so far or so hard right now is this, this airplane. This is the P8 P. It\'s made by the navy or the navy has them out there. This is the result of 35 billion dollar program. Each plan costs around a quarter billion dollars and many people consider this most effective subhungting plane in the world now because when it looks down at all this water which you and I would look at with our eyes. We could see sunlight glinting off and making it hard for us to see things. We might see white caps. All sort of things make it visually hard to see something. It uses radar to scan many, many miles of this. Thousands in a day to spot even little tiny items, so the fact that this plane, this quarter billion dollar plane has been moved down to search that specific area shows you that the things of probability that it could be one of more than important search areas has reason substantially. It doesn\'t mean they\'ll find anything but that means they think they might find debris on the surface. But remember, even if you find something on the surface, even all the calculations by NTSB and everyone else says it should be down there somewhere. If you find something, the bigger challenge lies ahead because this plane vanished over about 200 feet of water. But if you fly into this part of Indian Ocean and you keep going down below the surface. Look what you get. You get the kind of topography that you would get on this surface. A geography of hills and ridges and valleys and all sorts of places where that pinier that they might search for could be difficult to locate. \"
The family of the missing are in anguish. They are frustrated with the lack of search progress. Some accused the Malaysia government of withholding information. There\'s some technology that was launched too late to help with the incidents but astronaut Chris Hedfiled described how it could help in the future.
\"5 weeks ago, the space station released 28 little tiny satellite cameras that are now orbiting the world. They are about the size of a long skinny shoebox and each of them goes around the world every 90 minutes and they can see things down maybe to about the size of a car. The beauty of those will be, they will take a picture basically every second and you go 5 miles a second. So, every 5 miles, they\'ll take a picture of the world and continuously stream that information back to us, giving us a look at the planet like we\'ve never had before.\ |
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