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Coordinate to search and they just systemically go through it and they check off the boxes, if you will. so they know they have covered all of the areas where the wreckage could be. and they just backtrack working back to where the point of impact would be. and then at that point of course where the point of impact is is where theyre going to want to get divers and submersibles and get those assets there as quickly as possible to get those all-important cockpit voice recorder and flight data rec...

>> well we really dont know. and the recorders hopefully will tell most of the story. but thats why cameras in the cockpit are so important. it will give us an idea a visual idea of the conditions the crew was facing and the actions that they took in regard to trying to safely maneuver the aircraft. and of course again, i underscore the fact that this is an unacceptable amount of time for a rescue to hope to have survivors alive and thats why im so for and have always been for these deployable r...

To get there. murky water. talk about some of those challenges in terms of getting to the actual debris. >> well youve got to find it first of all. well theyve done that youve got to find the main debris field, well, mary as elgabtegantly said youll work backwards until you find it and then you go into the water and start searching. in 447, they found the debris field, they found where the fuselage was. but they still had several months before they could find the black boxes. because after, ther...

Happen. and i think not finding the aircraft until today, that was another pressure that was operating. but jim raises a good point -- theres a lot of new technology out there. whether its video in the cockpit to really see what was going on. or recorders, deployable recorders, or simultaneous transmission theres more that can be done to improve safety. >> the flight data recorder the all-important missing piece right now. obviously the priority is recovering the bodies so families can get closu...

Of those recorders. were looking for really redundant recorders, making sure we have good data both on the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder were looking for two hours on the cockpit voice recorder and potentially hundreds of parameters on the flight data recorder. they pull those out. the most important thing is really to preserve that evidence. to not damage it. as youre removing it and youre getting it out of the water, making sure you keep it wet so that you dont lose the d...

Affairs. >> and theres a lot of people who would like video cameras, peter, in those cockpits as well, live video cameras if you will, streaming back to ground control. but pilots unions dont like that idea very much. >> no. the ntsb has made recommendations to have live streaming inside cockpits, but it has been opposed. but youve got three technologies. youve got the streaming technology, youve got deployable recorders. and each of those technologies have some drawbacks, but they can be overco...

The plane isnt -- knowing an area where the plane isnt is pretty important information. and i wonder if theyve begun surveying the bottom of the gulf of thailand already in thatareae can cross that off, we can begin to make a lot more sense. >> jim, youve been at the ntsb for a long period of time. understand the situation much better than any of us. have you ever seen a situation like this? and what is going through your mind right now? what do you think are some of the possibilities that could...

Last known spot more in the south china sea? >> well, if i was leading this investigation, first of all, i would be very dependent on the experts in radar technology and aviation that work for the board and work for various agencies to determine. this needs to be an extremely coordinated effort and hopefully were going to see more of that now that we have all of the right players in place in malaysia. but obviously this is not simple. this is why i have been a long-time advocate for deployable r...

Will start pushing the vehicles around. that makes things difficult. visibility, if youre using cameras and the like to document the fuselage, that makes things difficult, too, because it might kick up sediments. so there are just becausess shallow water doesnt mean its a cake walk. still going to be tough. two things are going on. one is the humanitarian effort to recover bodies. very important. and number two, to begin the forensic investigation about what happened to the plane all leading eve...