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Technology that was successful in finding air france h447, the remus. >> well, its always best to get the best equipment on the scene as quickly as you can. but i would defer to the people who were on site. they know what is going on there. certainly the systems that we have in there, their proven capabilities during the flight 447 search would substantiate that they would be a great asset in this location. >> explain why the remus is so successful in the air france disaster. >> well, many of th...

Consumption, the data, i have said all along if youre confident that the pings are from the black boxes, how do you leave the area and even think about someplace else? >> david said tonight, what if that information the authorities relied on to define the search zone, what if it is just wrong? the inmarsat data is certainly controversial, and as randi kaye reports, this is not the first time a search plane has gone off course based on bad information. >> reporter: it is september, 2007, steve fo...

Welcome back. time for our experts to answer your questions. first one will go to michael kay. we have a question from mabel. mabel says what are the first steps taken in the investigation once the plane is found? >> i guess my answer to that, don, is which part of the plane is found first. that is critical. if it is surface debris, i think the huge bit of the investigation will be allowing closure for the families. that will be absolutely key. we have been talking about bypassing the hay stack ...

>> yeah, they had the haystack within five days, wolf, youre absolutely right. and it still took them two years. we dont have a haystack. what weve been doing is unprecedented. weve been trying to bypass the haystack and go straight in for the needle. if i was angus houston, number one priority at the moment would be getting at least something that can link debris to the resting place of mh370. if only to console and, you know, for the closure of the families. so thats the important bit. debris ...

Welcome back. time for our experts to answer your questions. first one will go to michael kay. we have a question from mabel. mabel says what are the first steps taken in the investigation once the plane is found? >> i guess my answer to that, don, is which part of the plane is found first. that is critical. if it is surface debris, i think the huge bit of the investigation will be allowing closure for the families. that will be absolutely key. we have been talking about bypassing the hay stack ...

We need to find that and get the black boxes where the answers will be. >> this is bifurcated, right. this is separate, theres two different searches and the information that keeps changing. that is one aspect. bad for the families but not necessarily for the search. lets get to the search. two-thirds covered. they dont see anything yet. is this a scary notion they may be in the wrong place, david? >> air france 447, it took us ten weeks total. ten weeks on the water. they spent two months searc...

Calculations. we had debris calculations were made to tell us where it came from and not where it came from so we spent two months in the wrong haystack. altogether maybe a little over a week, maybe eight days even we spent before we found the flight. i think they have got the right technology. they have got the right team. if the plane is in that area there will show up and they will find it. >> we are the transponder and we have the -- and its still took that amount of time. >> credit where cr...

Take months, if not years. am i correct with that? >> without a debris field, you really are -- we talk about the needle in a haystack, but it really is that. we think we know where the vehicle is. we think the pings that were heard are from the black box pick er pingers. but in reality, theres a lot acoustic noise in the ocean. we could be way off base. you look at the vastness of the ocean, this is an incredibly complex problem. so i think your assessments quite accurate. >> all right. thomas ...

Very slow process. but they do believe theyve far road it. the word they used is manageable. its not desirable but this area is manageable given time, patience, and effort. >> i keep hearing people refer to the air france investigation and that underwater search and using that two-year figure. i used it early on thinking it took two years to find. but a lot of that was getting permissions and convincing people and dealing with bureaucracies and getting permission to go on site. days searching wi...

Debris. and as randi kaye reports, it would not be the first time. >> reporter: steve fossett takes off, heading south in a single engine airplane. he promises to be back for lunch, but that is the last time anyone sees him. >> the best way to characterize this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> reporter: within hours, the search is under way. the terrain is rugged, the wilderness between nevada and eastern california is vast. the did that plane have like the equivalent of a black bo...