Colleen Keller
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51 appearances
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first heard Mar 2014
last heard May 2014
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My name is Colleen Keller.
I'm a senior analyst at Metron Incorporated, which is a consulting firm that has expertise in search theory.
You take that area and you grid it.
You divide it into cells, depending on how fine-grained you want to get, and then you run your scenarios, and your scenarios might say it flew this way, it flew this way.
Each of those scenarios has a terminus of where the airplane might have ended up, and those areas get probability based on how much you weighted that scenario.
So at that point, everybody was throwing up their hands, like, what do we do next?
So they came back to us one last time and they said, well, we have enough money to do this once again, but this is probably the last chance.
Metron did the analysis and factored in all the searches they'd done to date.
When we went back and said, no, those searches maybe weren't effective at all because there was no target to hear, so all of a sudden it was like, well, we've got to go back and hit that area again.
It still was a minor miracle that we found it.
I mean, we don't want to take full credit for it.
We just kept them from looking everywhere haphazardly.
But it was so lucky that the wreckage for Air France was on the bottom in a very sandy, open area.
There were some areas in there that looked like the Himalayas in terms of mountains and, you know, crags and valleys.
And, you know, a side-scan sonar being towed by a submarine might not see over the next ridge, and it could have been undetected forever.
but it just happened to be right where they looked.
You know, it was fairly miraculous.
It's a big world out there, and I know a lot of people are saying, how could you possibly hide or not find a 777?
And I think the answer is, it's easy.
I think it's very likely, if we don't get any major breakthroughs, it could be in the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and we'll never find it.
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