Transcript Reveals what Pilots Told Controller
MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: As we welcome you back to NEW DAY, want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the globe. This morning, we're getting a new look at just what the pilot said before Flight 370 went missing. A transcript showing their final words were not "all right, good night" as previously thought, but rather "good night, Malaysia 370." That as 11 planes and nine ships are scouring the Indian Ocean looking for debris that has been spotted on satellites. What should they be looking for? That's the question. Joining us now is a man who knows very well, satellite imagery analyst and former CIA intelligence officer, Steven Wood. Really great to have you here with us. We know that satellites are playing a big role in the search. We know it's a tool certainly. Let's recap the objects spotted on the 16th, 18th, 23th, 24th, all this in search area. They then refined their data and moved the search area up here. Have we seen good data from satellites in the new search area?</s>STEVEN WOOD, SATELLITE IMAGERY ANALYST: It is continuing to be collected. In fact, I was just looking right before this morning began, imagery was being collected yesterday, I know. The imagery looked good, from what I could tell.</s>PEREIRA: Not too cloudy?</s>WOOD: I know there's still weather in the area. Weather has continued to be a challenge as it has from the very beginning.</s>PEREIRA: I think it bears repeating, how is it that the data is analyzed, deemed credible and then scuttle the crews out to try and get those items.</s>WOOD: It's a great question. The answer is, it's complicated. This is a good example. These are coming from multiple countries. It's the United States, China, France, Thailand, each of these of nations have their own analysts. They're volunteers scouring the oceans now looking at this imagery to see what they can do.</s>PEREIRA: Teamwork.</s>WOOD: Absolutely. It's really a variety of people.</s>PEREIRA: You say that we can learn from -- we know that we can learn a lot from the Air France disaster about the investigation this time. But you say the satellite imagery can teach us some things. This is a map of where debris was found. Tell us what your thinking is?</s>WOOD: Interestingly enough, this actually came from here. A number of the guests that had been on your show repeatedly, David Soucie and Jeff Wise, were all talking about this about a week ago and saying what lessons could we learn from what happened last time?</s>PEREIRA: Sure.</s>WOOD: As David and Jeff were asking me, I said of course, the first thing you do in an investigation from my perspective analytically I want to go back and see if I have any other examples. So the first thing we did we started going back to see what happened with the Air France crash back in 2009. This map, it came from French Civil Aviation, their safety report that came out afterwards. This is a map showing all of the debris that was found floating after the Air France plane crashed. So this is in the Southern Atlantic, different area, obviously, compared to the Indian Ocean. But you can see the distribution --</s>PEREIRA: We should point out, we figure that this area from side to side is about 300 kilometers. Are you surprised that we haven't spotted any field this big?</s>WOOD: Here's the critical point, look how tight the circle is. People knew where to look.</s>PEREIRA: They had the ACARs transmission.</s>WOOD: That's right.</s>PEREIRA: OK. Let's look at the satellite comparing that. This is from Air France.</s>WOOD: Right. Let me caveat a little bit. This is taken by a U.S. imaging satellite. It's actually looking now for the missing Malaysian airliner.</s>PEREIRA: Sure.</s>WOOD: Fifty centimetre resolution is about 2 feet. In hindsight of course, we can go back and say there's an object here that lines up with that debris map.</s>PEREIRA: And it was debris.</s>WOOD: So we can start coming up with a better signature, if you will, or fingerprint of what aircraft debris on the ocean looks like on a satellite.</s>PEREIRA: You're pretty comfortable seeing these French satellites and Thai satellites of debris fields. We don't know definitively do we that these were not -- because we never got to them.</s>WOOD: It looks like objects. We have been unable to conclude they were from the missing Malaysian airliner.</s>PEREIRA: An untrained eye like myself would say, well, if we know that that was a plane that sure looks a lot like what we've seen over there.</s>WOOD: So this is the critical part. Now we can start looking at this more carefully. We have a much greater confidence that this was part of the aircraft from Air France, the shape, the size, the scale of it then you start mapping it up and you now have something you can train analysts with. You can start looking at your computer programs and training them more effectively. This is all part of that methodical process you have to go through to learn some of those lessons from the past. One of my colleagues was on a couple nights ago and he said that same thing. If we don't actually learn that lesson and do something different, it's just an observation.</s>PEREIRA: Steven Wood, always a pleasure, thank you so much. Really great information for us -- Kate.</s>BOLDUAN: All right, coming up next on NEW DAY, is an apology enough. GM' CEO Mary Barra is about to testify on Capitol Hill. What will she say about those faulty ignition switches? The editor and chief of "Popular Mechanics" magazine is going to be joining us live with his take.