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Information we had with 447. the acars messages were sent in realtime. we knew the general location, we knew the emergency the pilots were facing, the inconsistent information they were getting. so there was a great deal of information that was readily available at that time. unfortunately here, we dont about whether the information was unavailable because it was disabled or turned off or due to some other cause. we dont have that kind of information and that will make it more difficult. >> lets...

Plane. floating debris found on top of the circle, the area in blue. the actual plane found two years later, a short way from its last known location. >> that was the last known location pick ed up by the acars or engines. >> it was the last position transmitted by acars. they transmitted that. >> it was the actual location. so we are talking seven, eight miles away. >> didnt get very far. >> the hunt for mh 370 tougher, so little data, such a vast area. miguel marquez, cnn. breaking news here...

I think it would have helped. in fact, i have an inkling it was happening that way when they changed the search area to the other search area. >> better organization, sharing of resources in the early days could have focused the search. searchers now redoubling efforts to find any shred of debris, a critical piece of the puz le. >> if we can find a piece wreckage, some debris we will be able to narrow the search to a smaller area. >> like a trail of bread crumbs it would lead investigators to th...

>> it was the last position transmitted by acars. >> reporter: and that was the actual location. so, seven or eight miles away. >> right, it didnt get very far. >> reporter: mh 370, much tougher. a much vaster area. miguel marquez, cnn. >> and in malaysia, all passengers have been cleared of criminal acts. i want to bring in my team. probably a little less animated than cameras in the cockpit. but what does it mean that they havent cleared the crew,

Will live stream for the whole flight? i dont think a, theres the bandwidth. >> it will live stream to the point where it cant live stream anymore. any way, go on. finish your thought. >> im just saying the guys are only picking up what is a computer data linking system that allows them to talk there i the acars and if the acars can be turned off which isnt supposed to be turned off, anyone who wants to do something subversive will disable the cameras. cctv isnt the be and end all to crimes. >> ...

Finish your thought. >> well, the guys are picking up a computer data system, the acars. if someone wants to do something subversive in the cockpit, they can shut down the camera. >> maybe we should have transponders that cant be shut off. right, jeff wise? >> well, the president of the united states used to record all of his conversations. and it didnt work out well for nixon. >> he has cameras that follows him every day. >> richard nixon -- >> when les is at home, he doesnt have to have camera...

So i think the decision was $10 a flight. $100,000 an airplane. the view is that the boeing aircraft is a very safe aircraft and they just didnt want to do it from a cost standpoint. now were paying a horrific price. we have no stability in the investigation. we dont know where it is. and now were moving the search zone. so this is kind of a case study in looking back on this and how not to do it. its going to change aviation forever in some very important areas going forward. >> steven marks, y...

Ping. thats an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding just a piece of that plane. to find those so-called black boxes is highly unlikely. and most people believe could take many years. michael, the reason the diffe...

About attitude, heading, speed, altitude, all those things that are critical to kind of zone in on the crash site, they were out of this. we did not have that capability. so i think the decision was $10 a flight. $100,000 an airplane. the view is that the boeing aircraft is a very safe aircraft and they just didnt want to do it from a cost standpoint. now were paying a horrific price. we have no stability in the investigation. we dont know where it is. and now were moving the search zone. so thi...

Ill-fated turn. >> weve got to look at what we know. we know the acars went out of. we know the communication saying, all right good night. the transponder was turned off. its vital. it gives position. it gives squawk, 2157. we know from yesterday what the transcript said and we know it was at flight level three-five-zero. this is unequivocal data but its the last we have. we know that they were told to go to 120.9. they didnt go. what were the emergency protoco protocols. there was a distress c...