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shed light on why this happened. were also not showing any faces in the frame. in addition to three guests who will be joining us shortly, all experts in aviation and crash investigations, they will be weighing in on what they see in this video. because whatever brought the flight down on approach yesterday to nepals second largest city likely happened or became unstoppable in those seconds that youll see. 72 people were above the twin engine european made airliner, at least 68 are kno...

French may play a very large role because the plane was manufactured there. the country of manufacture of the aircraft in addition, of course, to the airline and then the third possibility is the accident site. so you have nepal and france for sure and i would suspect that france would play a very big role. they have extremely experienced investigators. most importantly, they have a very good lab that can download those blacks boxes. they have already got them. they probably are in the process r...

Aircraft they are now searching this particular area. this is a second priority area not the first priority area. which is quite interesting. so certainly all assets are now being deployed to the area, as far as the tail goes on. the divers are in the water. divers are in the water at this minute inspecting the tail. with it, they can access the black boxes, whether they can do that we dont know. equipment on vessels will move in. they will need to retrieve it and pull it out of the ocean, as to...

What do we know about the event the black boxes are found? >> we know know they have already said they will actually have to call in an expert to look at this because they do not have the expertise on their own. and we also know that there are at least three countries that can handle it that would be the united states, the uk, as well as australia. its not clear which one of these countries might be preferred. its also possible certainly that they could bring in an international working group, a...

Monitor the ocean below. the search teams say their greatest asset is the human eye. to avoid fatigue, crew members are switched out from the 11-hour flights every day in the search zone they scan the water in 30-minute shifts to maintain con concentration. >> have you spotted anything on this ship? >> no, no, unfortunately not. were just going to carry on though. so, yeah, we will be in half an hour. see how it goes. >> reporter: even after so many weary hours of searching, fatigue has yet to d...

Its not the pilots fault, they didnt have the training. but other situations where they havent been able to get the masks on. les is so right. its all in the training. know where it is, how to get it on and how important to do that. so it all comes back to basically how well were they trained, if they had an emergency, how well were they trained to do it? >> treinteresting, as paul said. pre-planning, looking for the black boxeses listening for the blacks boxes. you may have a check list were tr...

Looking for the black backes and so far they havent found them. fit comes down to relying on the debris, are they up to the task if they have to piece together the wreckage? >> look, don, i really do believe they are. australias aviation transportation safety bureau is one of the best in the world. theyve helped nations in the near proximity like indonesia. theyve helped them with their crash investigation. theyve helped the singaporeans as well. theyve got a very, very good track record, very m...

Back now with our panel of experts, fabian cousteau, talking a lot about challenging marine environments. youre working with a unique underwater project weve been talking about a little. tell us about mission 31. >> im taking six aspiring aquanauts to live and work underwater at the only undersea marine laboratory for 31 days. and that allows us to experience the underwater world in a way that is very rarely afforded. >> and you know, weve learned about the ocean in this particular case. its sad...

That theyre able to cull together, they still may not be able to find that one piece that brought the plane down in the first place. >> lets get back to our panel now. also joining us is geoffrey thomas. i want to get to mary quickly. mary, we may not have to put this plane back together. ive asked you this question before and youve answered it. if the data recorders are found and the information is intact, which you think it will be once they are found, the plane, they wont want to reassemble t...

Them. >> reporter: in this mission the sonobouys and orion planes deployed will detect sounds of black box pings. sonar operators on board the aircraft are manning xurcompute to receive and analyze the signals. they are dropped in a >> the beauty of these things, sonar buoys, they stay out a long time. up to eight hours. >> reporter: then expire and sink to the bottom. they can go around 1,000 feet down. how do they detect signals? possibly from black boxes which could be as far down at 14,700-p...