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That. now were there other confounding factors? would you lose power and -- that system might turn off. >> i wouldnt dispute what jeff is saying because everything is up in the air at this point in time. but, if they were in a thunderstorm or convective situation with updrafts downdrafts it wouldnt have bean normal glide. >> it couldnt physically do that. >> it also wouldnt be boom smack on the deck. it would have taken some time. this is a mystery anyway. im confounded as to why there wasnt mor...

Box recorders. >> and obviously the weather is a factor in trying to make sure that they find all of these parts of the plane. what about the tracking technology that is being used, satellite technology being used? we saw nothing was helpful in finding mh 370, but in this case, do we have the tech knowledge to make sure enough of this plane is found so that investigators can figure out what happened? >> well, i think by the fact that we found the surface wreckage, thats not going to be a real qu...

The bodies werent wearing life vests. can you read anything into that? >> not really. you could say the plane fell suddenly which obviously it did if the wreg age is not that far from the last contact. so that means there wasnt any time to get people ready for splash down. and i think the fact that the wreckage on the surface is not too far from where the last contact is means the plane fell fairly suddenly. theres been a lot of talk about stall. stall is an aerodynamic. it doesnt mean the engin...

And in principle, that could have pushed some surface wreckage down. and then theres another current that might have pushed it back up. so i dont think that idea that the wreckage could have been there is entirely unreasonable. sadly, of course, it isnt. so it couldnt have been discounted from the start. >> lets talk about the bluefin 21, jules. it has now scanned more than 90% of the seabed search zone with no signs of the wreckage found. i mean, do you think the plane is likely to be found in ...

What hes sigh saiing. joining me, oceanographer with the scripps institute of oceanography and worked on the search for "titanic" and has incredible insight into the difficulties of deep water search. thank you for joining us again, jewels. welcome back to the show. earlier, there was a lot of discussion about a piece of metal with rivets that washed on shore. weve learned investigators dont think it is from the plane. would you expect any wreckage to be washing ashore by this time, a thousand m...

The navy says this latest problem not at all unusual. but it is driving home the many challenges involved with the bluefin mission. first dive aborted because it went into waters deeper than it was programmed to go. despite interruptions the bluefin has been able to download data. so far, no evidence of the plane. >> its absolutely confounding to me that weve not seen a single shred of concrete evidence. >> reporter: and the bluefin-21, wolf, has been down of the third run above the ocean floor ...

Today. we had been told that phase of things looking for surface wreckage would be scaled down this week. no sign of that yet. they are still in the air and on the ocean looking for any wreckage. of course, none found so far. were now in to our sixth week. >> none found so far. the data, has it been processed from the bluefins first dive which was called off because of unexpected depth that it suddenly faced. did they find anything of note? >> good question. in fact, only in the last hour, ander...

The job. as you know yesterdays mission was aborted after six hours. todays dive is expected to go around the clock. there are new developments on that front, new developments, as well, with that oily substance recovered from the ocean surface and well also tell you about a tracking system for planes thats being rolled out over the next six years that may have changed everything about that happened to flight 370. the question is why six years from now will it be rolled out? what is taking so lon...

Ocean trying to do the job. as you know, the mission was aborted after nearly six hours, today, the round is expected to go for hours, there are new developments, the developments with the oily substance, and a tracking element that may change everything about what happened to flight 370. the question is, why six years later will it be rolled out? first, michael holmes from perth. what is the latest, michael? >> reporter: anderson, good morning from perth. yeah, the bluefin-21 doing its work dow...

Debris, for surface wreckage could soon be coming to an end. he said that he thought that by this time it was becoming increasingly unlikely they would find any wreckage. though, had he to consult partners before making that final decision. >> ian williams, thanks again. lets bring in friend of the show former ntsb vefrlt greg phythe. it seems like as the search goes on it only gets harder. >> it does, and thats the big thing. we talked about this a while back, and that is there comes a point wh...