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It also gives them new incentive to go looking for other parts and other pieces that may be in the reunion island area or other areas so they can help narrow down and maybe perhaps aid the search for additional wreckage and those all important black boxes. >> thats an important point. they can keep on looking around there. keep on with the undersea search in the general search area they have suspected now for more than a year. mary, it took a long time for them to reach this conclusion, to get t...

For the french bea to be reticent and take their time and to be -- frankly, when the rest of the world, especially boeing saying its the flaperon, it has to be from mh-370 because no other 777s are missing, under ntsb standards, under our investigation standards, which is a civil investigation, that would be enough for us to conclude this is most likely 370 but the french bea, and ive worked three previous case, the concorde crash, the west caribbean 708 and air transport and i worked on some ma...

Planes nose is up or down what is the exact position of your plane with respect to the horizon. are you pitched up? or are you pitched down. and this is a tube on the port of the plane. on the side of the plane, and it reads this by having air flow into the plane. there were some problems with others, air france 447 had some indication there is might have been these tube problems. and one is called a pedo tube and the other one is a port that takes in information. and the airline did come out wi...

That can explain why this plane just lost so much altitude from 38,000 feet to 6,000 feet in only eight minutes and ended up crashing on that mountain on tuesday. well the point is the debris of so many and so small is making it difficult for investigators and that is why the two black boxes are essential to find out what happened on tuesday. >> and so well see if they can recover the second black box. claudio, thank you. and well see about recovery of one of the black boxes and tom costello joi...

Black boxes very quickly. theyre good at it. so can the french bea, the british can do it the australians can do it. there are many countries that have that capability. the most important thing right now is finding it. you know no beacons, no elts going off right now apparently. no way to do it except the long search with eyes and with, you know radar coordinates, et cetera. >> this may sound like a basic question but we know its a yurp even aircraft so are the black boxes the same? is it all es...

Quick. i would expect france to take a role in this. the french bea will have a big role in the investigation more so than the ntsb which will participate only by invitation. >> even as this conversation expands, i imagine it re-energizes the conversation about some location device or system be on the pingers, this beacon on this black box. after 370 the search for that, i mean it took forever and still has not been located. >> right. you have made just an excellent point. we thought that the wo...

It was important to get some information out to the public and the families and the loved ones of the victims because they needed to know that things were moving forward. but we were very recavery caref not to let too much filter in or put something out there that was speculative. i think a lot of the confusion we see going on right now the suspicion is self-generated. theres about 50 people that i think have a good handle on whats really going on, probably, and about 2 billion people that think...