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Aviation department mary shafo, great to have your expertise on this. when you look at how the authorities have been handling this so far, in terms of their interactions with the families what they have and what they have not said as well. do you see this announcement or this comment that its at the bottom of the ocean, perhaps coming from some sort of data that we havent yet heard about? >> i certainly hope so. because to deliver that information to the families and ive worked with hundreds of ...

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...

Astonishing aircraft mystery. so however tragic this case is i would be surprised if were looking at another mh370. i think thats where the similarity would probably start. mh370 was such a unique situation were likely to find out what happened much sooner with this one. >> right. because there was things going on in the cockpit of mh370 that no one could make sense of. not the case here from what we know of 8501. and as you just said they do have the last radar coordinates. is that correct? >> ...

But at this point with no contact, they need to be searching for any clues and sadly they need to be looking for wreckage at this point because thats going be very important. the most helpful thing that many nations could do is to contribute their radar. if they -- instead of wasting time searching vast amount of seas and listening for pingers what they have to do is pinpoint in all the possible radar coordinates so they can go right to the area. thats going to be important because i heard other...

Pinger locaters. is that something search and rescue would use at this time? are we talking about purely at this early stage, less than 24 hours after the plane disappeared, are we talking about mainly a visual search? >> theyre mainly doing a visual search of course hopefully aided by a tremendous amount of data from nations who will i hope freely share their radar tracking information. that was one of the biggest problems on 370 in that the radar information that the malaysia government had wa...

Here we are waiting with not enough time to find the boxes. >> we have the three alternate courses were following in this investigation. one is what happened and why inside the plane? the other is why is this plane so difficult to find in terms of what youre discussing now, the technology in the black box and how little it turns out there is in a plane to find it if something happens? and then of course the most important, as mary pointed out, hopefully a break through from investigators where i...