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Director of airline ratings.com. what do you know about this? >> well, before we get -- if we may, here we have the -- >> i know, but first answer the question, and then well get to that. because theyre waiting to confirm that. what do you know about this? >> what i know about it is that weve known for a long time that the plane went north then turned to a u-turn, then went down into the strait of malacca, out to the west, and then across down into the indian ocean. youre watching it here. now w...

Went on the air is can the black boxes be turned off? >> les? >> no. the only -- well, let me recant that. yes, they can throw a circuit breaker. they can be turned off. but it takes -- you have to climb into the electronic and engineering compartment. and its a real process to get down there to do it. >> i just want to jump in on this question. i want to advance that question. excellent question about can the black boxes be removed. can they be or should they be deployable in the event of an ac...

We dont know. probably not. les, lets have you answer this one. this is from jojo wants to know. can ocean shield also deploy men in small boats with portable pinger detectors like the chinese did? well, were not sure the chinese did anyway. but go ahead. >> listen, thats not my sorry of expertise. im not going to touch that one. ask me some pilot stuff and ill try to answer that. >> mary schiavo, mary, you answer this from joe? can ocean shield also deploy men in small boats with portable pinge...

>> cameras in the cockpit, my old issue is put them in there. its not going to help our safety. its an after the fact. its an after the fact type situation. >> and i dont think cameras in the cockpit are going to help your investigations. the camera in the cockpit cant see what the feet are doing on the rudders. you have to go to the fdr. if somebody leans forward to touch a switch, we can see this when we see pictures from the 777. >> the question is where do you position the cameras to make it...

A public report, our own ntsb said the pilot managed to pull the circuit breaker on the cvr. so the cvr was all clean. and we didnt have anything in the crash sequence. there was nothing because the cvr had stopped. >> but up until that point, you heard what happened, right, until the pilot pulled. >> exactly. >> it was a different aircraft, mary, correct? >> right. 37. it was a 37. >> you can actually shut it off. is mikey k. there? how are you doing, michael. i have a question from a viewer. m...

And theyre already lawyers here in beijing talking to family members on a daily basis. if they cannot find any evidence on that plane, then those lawsuits are out of the question and certainly the families have fewer options. but, again, right now they want to take that first step. we havent even reached that first step that they want to actually get some closure. there are so many steps after that. but just taking that first step has to happen. don? >> david mckenzie, david, thank you very much...

Unusual that you would kind of guess, put your finger in the air and say i will search here and you get pings. so im a little suspicious that it was just a lucky break. i think there is science behind it. >> ah. >> there you go. from the professional, the woman who knows who has investigated many of these. i think you said something very interesting here, paul. mary did. there is the big gun that has the towed one and then are there are smaller units out there. richard raised the question. would...

Lastly, why was the chinese vessel searching in an unplanned search area? thats the question that everyone has. >> last night, angus houston addressed that. he addressed it, and he basically said it was part of the search area in terms of the general search area. he skirted it. and then he went on because a journalist specifically asked the question, not to put too fine a point of this, are you and the chinese at disagreement? and he said again and again, no, happy with the cooperation, happy wi...

So even if we find some kind of physical evidence for many of these people, just they will never have closure in this case. so very traumatic indeed. >> well, its pretty awful. thank you, david mckenzie. david mckenzie in beijing. as we mentioned, were awaiting a news conference from the joint agency that is searching for mission malaysia airlines flight 370. it is being described as an update on the status of the search. as we await that conference, my panel is back, and we have some questions ...

I just dont -- its hard to get. >> im going with hes got some information. just a gut feeling. >> we all hope and pray. >> i wanted to touch on a real serious consideration that richard said with reference to the chinese holding back on the technology they have with reference to pauls expertise. is it possible -- why would the hms echo be going over there. just a question of mine, if the chinese ship had more technology than theyre snowing just a question. it could be that they want to verify th...