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operations and submersibles specialist. colonel michael kay, former uk military pilot and cnn aviation analyst. tim, you ve joined the panel since the last hour. and you ve brought with you a very significant prop. better known as an auv. explain how this is significant in what s happening on the other side of the world. actually, this is more than a prop. it is an actual auv. it just is a shallow water version. when we talk shallow water we re talking 200 meters, 650 feet. so it will actually go down on its own and it will use its side scan to map the ocean bottom. effectively what we re looking at now is this would be step two. they are listening with the phones, driving the phones along for lack of a better description. now that they ve got just a little piece of evidence of pinging this goes in next to start looking? the blue fin 21, what the navy has supplied, will be doing the work. it s a much larger system with a little bit more sophisticated navigation instruments. becau
yet the airliner says boeing and its 777, the same model of plane missing, is also partly to plane. it says the plane s navigation instruments, airplane software, led the crew to believe the jet was maintaining enough speed to land safely. in its own documents, boeing says not so. placing the blame squarely on the pilots. the equipment it says had been functioning normally. there s almost 1200 or so 777s flying around. that hasn t been a problem with any of the other carriers that i m aware of. reporter: according to mark weiss, the airline has a weak argument, maintaining that safe air speed is the bottom line it s the pilot s job to maintain safe air speed at all times. that may go back to a fundamental problem of skill sets or training. reporter: the federal aviation administration urged
yet the airliner says boeing and its 777, the same model of plane missing, is also partly to plane. it says the plane s navigation instruments, airplane software, led the crew to believe the jet was maintaining enough speed to land safely. in its own documents, boeing says not so. placing the blame squarely on the pilots. the equipment it says had been functioning normally. there s almost 1200 or so 777s flying around. that hasn t been a problem with any of the other carriers that i m aware of. reporter: according to mark weiss, the airline has a weak argument, maintaining that safe air speed is the bottom line it s the pilot s job to maintain safe air speed at all times. that may go back to a fundamental problem of skill sets or training. reporter: the federal aviation administration urged boeing in 2010 to update its