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They would continue to work in . >> the wire carriers stand to make a big impact, a positive impact, on our economy. but on the aviation side, weve also got to make sure that its safe. >> reporter: tonight the airlines are warning they may have to ground planes and mass cancellations could start wednesday. >> our thanks to tom costello for that report. coming up, poignant words about what the united states senate will face tomorrow in what has become a pitched battle for the preservation of de...

Way that we would to go after a specific military target or targets. they are just throwing everything, if you will. but the aviation side of this, frankly, has not been terribly significant. >> yeah. >> here is an interesting point. if the ukrainians had the ability to deploy tactical air into this fight, they could, for example, chris, go after that convoy. you look at that and you see that 40-mile conflict convoy -- and as a military guy i see the biggest target in the world. to get at, it th...

Admirals above him, as well as the secretary of navy had lost confidence in his command. as to the why question, they dont know. they dont know if these issues are related. these four separate accidents are related. from folks on capitol hill, youll hear this argument, has to do with readiness and lack of training and the fact that the military is stretched too thinly, too broadly and not being funded enough, high enough levels. theyll make a similar argument for why we saw these accidents on th...

In the water and being in a helicopter is nerve wracking. >> the helicopter pilots did an amazing job. they are often the folks we dont talk about but they do an incredible job. i was struck by something in your past. you wanted to join the coast guard and you were training really, really hard. and you had a near death experience that really put this rescue and your come back from that into perspective. tell our viewers a little bit about that? n;ip yeah after hurricane katrina, that was seeing ...

I want to go first to our jim sciutto. the plane was reportedly shot down by pro-russian separatists on monday. that was at 21,000 feet. this malaysian jet at some 32,000 feet. are we any clearer on who may have shot the plane down? having some problems getting jim. well continue to check in. our richard quest is here. again, at this stage, we still dont know exactly who fired this missile, what would the intent of this missile be, this buk system, which is a russian missile system seems to have...

Flights for day. this area is much closer than the area last week. so the flight out there, probably about 2 hours or so. and that gives us almost five hours on station time for search area. and its about two hours back. so weve had good luck with weather. and scheduling, so all the flights are working out. you know, unfortunately we havent found any debris associated with aircraft wreckage. we see stuff every day. we can see things as small as trash or seaweed or even dolphins splashing out the...

Have the inmarsat people saying give us raw data, let us analyze it, and theyre not getting it. thats not about media management, thats about disclosure of information thats going to affect the timing of this investigation, isnt it? >> thats true. the big part is, how are they conducting all of the uauation aspect -- aviation aspects of the investigation. the actual fact of the investigation has been on going. on the aviation side, when have the technicians been allowed to look at the data, when...

>> peter? >> i really didnt see anything. i thought it looked pretty normal. >> and you agree? >> yes. >> totally normal. all right. it took three weeks for the malaysians -- ill ask you this, tom. youve worked with the malaysians. why did it take three weeks? it should have been released immediately. >> it should have been. ive worked with the police but this part of the investigation is really the aviation side of it. the defense ministry, the radars, satellite information is being released. s...

Australians coordinating the search areas. but we did just launch our p-8 flight fts for day. this area is much closer than the area last week. so the flight out there, probably about 2 hours or so. and that gives us almost five hours on station time for search area. and its about two hours back. so weve had good luck with weather. and scheduling, so all the flights are working out. you know, unfortunately we havent found any debris associated with aircraft wreckage. we see stuff every day. we c...

Quickly after that as to what was found or what was relayed back. as of now, everything that they find will go back to the malaysian government. as weve seen, they dont feel the need to tell everybody as much as we would normally say in this country during a crisis like this. they may hold it close to the vest. we may not know for a long time exactly what the findings were. >> well, considering that the families are demanding answers and putting pressure on the malaysian government, might they b...