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Under the circumstances. thank you, matthew chance. lets get insight from our experts joining us, a contributing writer of the "new york times" magazine, a come u.s. for foreign policy. also a former fbi assistant director. and our national security analyst is joining us, as is our aviation correspondent richard quest. richard, the cockpit voice recorder shows there was an explosion on board. the flight data recorder confirms this wasnt a technical malfunction. it clear to you now based on every...

>> we dont know if thats true. we knew somebody wrote a note that said you may not work this day. now, i dont know if that was permission not to work if that was by that doctor for another medical illness. >> "the times" is reporting multiple physicians, two or more. that would suggest he went for a second opinion. >> did they know he was a pilot? did they know he was a pilot? that would be my question. >> im assuming they do. >> theres no way to know. unless youre a medical examiner designated ...

One idea, streaming cockpit data live from the flight. the ntsb has called for video cameras in cockpits. you oppose this. why is that? >> well, i think the first thing we have to do is take a step back and acknowledge one thing. the fact of the matter is we have the safest form of transportation in the history of the world. we continue to have that right now, even with the presence of this issue with the malaysia flight. the reason for that is because we have safety-minded professionals up fron...

Malaysian officials have said a report will be made in one week. cnn learned the report proposes live streaming information from the cockpit in future flights. this will help to lessen reliance on the black box. does that go far enough? should we consider cameras in the cockpit? this always sparks a lively debate on the show when we talk about this, captain cassidy. as a result of this case, theres been renewed talk about beefing up airline security and safety. one idea, streaming cockpit data l...

And now a month after this plane has fannish ivanished, it is c and our sources say investigators are confident that the pilot, not the co-pilot, but the pilot was the last person to speak to air traffic controllers. that was the voice heard saying good night. for weeks we were told it was the co-pilot. as for the search itself we now have a new possible signal today heard by one of these sono buoys. they are floating microphones that these search teams they toss them off airplanes into the ocea...

>> jim hall was chairman of the n ntsb when the recommendation was made, after the investigation of several cashes determined that there was not enough cockpit data to determine what went wrong. >> the cameras would be on the instruments and on the manipulations that are made. >> we see the edging and edging more towards taking away way the privacy of the pilots. we are performing our job up there and i would rather be focused on doing my job than people seeing me. >> i hope that we wont wait un...

Would not be available for viewing by anyone. >> jim hall was chairman of the ntsb when the recommendation was made. after the investigation of several crashes, found there wasnt enough cockpit data to determine what went wrong. >> cameras would not be on the face of either of the pilot or the co-pilot. they would focus on the instruments and on the manipulations that are made. >> we constantly see edging towards taking away privacy from the pilots. i would rather focus on doing my job that what...

Help search for the black box is heading into the search zone. let go live to will thunder. >> reporter: kate, the countdown is on, less than one hour until the scheduled department for the "shield," that will tow the equipment along the sea floor listening to the cockpit data. it can only detect the sound within a one-mile radius. the plan is to get the ship in place. if and wehen debris is found, they can zoom in to the area. chris? >> theres so much frustration from families and others to why...

Black boxes. we dont know if that will be the case. we have one of the most sophisticated lags. because of that one-third of their league is for essentially foreign governments. how fast can they analyze it? the ntsb investigators could potentially once they get the black boxes get a read-out of that first critical data within 24 hours. >> so how exactly do they get the information off the boxes? >> so when they do, if and when they pull them out of the salt water, what theyll want to do is plac...

>> uh-huh. >> well never know what might have gone on if the voice recorders found other than the last two hours. >> thats correct. thats correct. thats all we would know about it. but that could be valuable information. but what would have been more valuable is if the flight voice recorder had been going all that distance. this issue of privacy came up when there was a big push to put cameras in the cockpit and record the video of the pilots. >> they didnt want that. >> throughout the whole fli...