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Bluefin-21 mission. it has yielded nothing. the fifth plu fin mission underway right now. i want to bring in seth wise the author of extreme fear the science of your mind and danger. bill is a professor of safety science at embery riddle aero nautical university. tim tilmon, retired pilot, richard quest is back with me again. givery to you again. another promising lead and another dead end. was the oil slick a dead end? the analysis it wasnt connected to flight 370. did that surprise you? >> i d...

>> you would probably give them a three out of five, maybe some people may give them a two out of five. having said that, don, theres not too many countries that would do this investigation any better because we havent lost an airplane this size like this for a month. this is something that is quite extraordinary. this would have challenged most jurisdictions i would say. now that we have the collaborative effort of the united states, the british, the australians, the chinese, the french, as wel...

And the acars system but stops short of destroying the aircraft or the autopilot. so you have to have the perfect fire. >> fascinating. thank you. i want to get back now to my panel. this one is for you, tim tilmon from derek. he says do pilots know their flight schedule out a month or it is a routine schedule for the pilots? >> every airline is a little different, but most airlines give you a bid sheet a month in advance, and you just use your seniority to achieve a line of flying that you want...

Listening and sonar abilities. im not a submarine expert, but they have to have the cutting edge technology if theyre a warship to look out in front of them and look around them. but theyre a very expensive item to run, and you could do the same with autonomous vehicles. sound is very limited. you can only look -- unclassified, i guess, 1,000 meters on each side, maybe 2,000 meters, depending on your strength of your sonar and you have to be down close to the bottom. if these are 13,000 feet dee...

But theyre a very expensive item to run, and you could do the same with autonomous vehicles. sound is very limited. you can only look -- unclassified, i guess, 1,000 meters on each side, maybe 2,000 meters, depending on your strength of your sonar and you have to be down close to the bottom. if these are 13,000 feet deep, even the best subs do not go that deep. >> this is from gale who says is there an aircraft carrier heading out to the search area? >> not as far as im aware. >> tim, do they ne...

Panel. this one is for you, tim tilmon from derek. he says do pilots know their flight schedule out a month or it is a routine schedule for the pilots? >> every airline is a little different, but most airlines give you a bid sheet a month in advance, and you just use your seniority to achieve a line of flying that you want to fly for that following month. if youre senior enough, you can get that flying and its pretty well scheduled, so you know where youre going to be and when youre going to be ...

stuntman named jimmy leeward was maneuvering his aircraft through the twists and turns of a national championship air race in reno. something -- and we dont yet know what -- but something went terribly wrong. as you saw, the plane left the course, headed for the grandstand and then crashed straight into the ground. leeward and eight spectators are dead. more than 50 others injured. there is early speculation based on witness photographs. look at the tail section of the plane. the photo...