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It comes to a more serious situation of a military threat. so basically, what mh 370 has actually given us some hope that we can cooperate, while at the same time we need to cooperate in a landscape that is much more complex when we see the issues relating to the mh370. and i think that is one paradigm shift that i noticed on the s.a. [ speaking foreign language ] >> okay. the last comment there i guess is a reference to the coordination that all of these countries, australia, new zealand, the u...

A black box, not a problem for an r.o.v. to recover it back to the vessel. >> top priority for the investigators is to retrieve the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. this r.o.v. can go to depths of around 10,000 feet but the r.o.v. that is brought to the wreckage of flight 370 could have to withstand the pressure of around 15,000 feet of water. underwater pulses were detected at that depth last week. and unlike the bluefin searchers are currently using, the r.o.v. is connected...

All of the people, thousands of people in the airport with cell phones on, hard to isolate. you dont know the phone number of all of the people from the 14 other countries. that might be hard to isolate for the police. but, that tower, that plane as david soucie said, its going through that zone so quickly that there should have been a burst of cell phones connected for a short time and unconnected. >> are your sources suggesting the malaysians may have been holding back information, not just fr...

Suspicious packages, or ideas of crowds moving, which would be valuable. >> joining me, michael schmidt, who has been covering the bombing investigation for "the new york times." michael, welcome to you. we look at all these security measures. is there a consideration that it could have prevented last years bombing had they been in place? >> look, any more security that they had last year certainly would have made a difference. but as we saw this week, the inspector generals for all the intellig...

Interest here, that the airlines are owned by the malaysian government? >> well, and not untypically for many third world countries. theyre flag carriers, state-owned or controlled by the state. so when a tragedy like this happens, this is a massive failure by the state itself. that leads to embarrassment. that leads to cover-up. and an unwillingness to ask for help because thats another sign of lack of capacity. so when you add all this together, i think its marred the search from the beginning...

Also an attorney who represents victims, a former prosecutor. she deals with families after airplanedy sasters. and mr. david suecy, no sloich himself. author of "why planes crash." thanks to both of you. possibilities. things are possible at this point. right? thats a very low standard of proof and thats part of the frustration for the families certainly. so investigators say this morning, we dont know if were ever going to be able to find that out. true. incontrovertible, not worth debating, m...

Getting as legitimate information? or do they see everything as being filtered through the scope of political correctness when it comes to the malaysian government? because they do not believe that government. >> right. first of all, i have a lot of sympathy for the malaysian government, for the job that they have to do. an almost impossible job, and the only thing id say is i dont think theyve done it very well, and what has happened, theyve lost the trust of the families. theyve given out info...

Sight after aircraft? >> one of the questions is whether the malaysians were forthcoming what they saw in terms of radar or whether they held back information. so part of the problem is i think there was a scarcity of information at the beginning. and there may have been some misinformation, perhaps inadvertent. thats made it more difficult. >> what do you worry about now? theres a scenario that took place were trying to piece together. after 9/11 when we thought so much about aviation security,...

Fohcoming what they saw in terms of radar or whether they held back information. so part of the problem is i think there was a scarcity of information at the beginning. and there may have been some misinformation, perhaps inadvertent. thats made it more difficult. >> what do you worry about now? theres a scenario that took place were trying to piece together. after 9/11 when we thought so much about aviation security, are there any things we need to learn. >> i think there are. one of the theori...

Conspiracy here. theyre not holding back information on the basis of a calculated move. theyre just not handling it well from the -- ones heart goes out to the victims and you have to feel for their pain and some of that inflicted unnecessarily by the malaysian government but i dont think its maliciously so. its that something something of a wakeup call for the malaysian government that hasnt used the time its had to increase the transparency and accountability of the government. did you fly m...