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Plus now they have developed this business model for low-cost airlines. if you look at the way airasia is structured, you look at southwest airlines this is a common fleet. they use airbuses they use boeings. so now theyre understanding you can move people with ultra low cost carriers no-filly airlines. the question is does the regulatory authority like in malaysian or china, have the ability. we had that problem when i investigated value jet, one of the big issues that came out of value jet, it...

When you do these kind of investigations you talk more about evidence. we are reporting about the likelihood that the plane is actually down and in the ocean. walk us through the process, day three of the search what kind of evidence these folks are looking at and how that adds up to the story were being told about what happened. >> from my perspective, it was similar to value jet. you have a two-part process here. were trying to recover the wreckage because that will give us evidence or clues a...

Treachery that goes with that route this time of the year. alister, are you there? he has disappeared and we will get him back in a moment. okay. where we left off, we will pick up on the idea of whether or not it is the basically the pilot or if it is weather or a kom bi combination of both? >> well, it is in some ways unusual the pilot, and the crew members did not radio an emerge emergency, but there is the culture of the cockpit in which the pilots are loathe to declare emergencies. in value...

They are sitting waiting and watching of course theres not much they can do because the search effort is halted at this point. >> we were talking with will and with andrew at the airport about the families you know a lot about family assistance, because you wrote the book on it literally, right? >> in 1996 twa value jet and earlier the u.s. air accident pittsburgh the families came together and were pushing the ntsb and i chaired a -- and we wrote the family assistance act that congress passed i...

>> it is bravado? >> a little bit of it. and you think it had to be a catastrophic event if neither one of them and generally the pilot flying is not handling the radio. >> and the three words that we say is aif yat, and keep the airplane flying and navigate and then communicate. and communicate is three. and peter talked about it with valujet, and they knew they had a roaring fire and trying to get back at mimeami international airport and talking is a lower priority and that in some kind of to...

Change of name that changes the perception? i dont know. i cant imagine malaysia not having a flag carrier, so i guess the question is, there will be some sort of malaysian airline in the future, and what will it be named. >> yeah, value jet after it crashed had a different name. this goes less to the carrier than the air safety regulators. there was a warning for flights above eastern ukraine up to 32,000 feet, and it was flying at 33,000 feet. >> in retrospect, i find troubling it was announce...

Real tick. they heard the pings, one for two hours and then went back and heard the second one for 13 minutes. now, either the boxes and the bat tri, itself, is starting to the wane at this pointer or it was a false positive if you will, which we have had in the pa past. so it is really hard to determine at this point. >> and i do wonder, though, and i tend to find myself identifying with the families, we have heard so many times that this is the latest best piece of information, and hopes keep ...

Course, to get the actual assets that have the side scan s.o.n.a.r. and these deep sub messables that can actually then confirm. they have cameras on them. they can use the side scan s.o.n.a.r. to actually map the bottom of the ocean so we can see really where the debris field is. and then once that takes place, then determine the best course of action to try and find where the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder may be. the one thing about this is that those pingers are mounted ...

Families here. what about that? >> well, depends on what ultimately is determined to be the cause. if there is no cause ever found, then they will receive the compensation from the airlines, such as workers comp or whatever the airline compensation is. if the cause were to be determined to be something other than the carrier, such as a mechanical or some outside force or, dont forget, the shipper and the batteries. if the shipper would be liable, that would be like value jet. the pilots and flig...

The senses and the entire range of options to deal with. value jet in the united states showed the absolute devastating deadly nature of a fire in the cargo hold. >> i dont envision 239 people passing out at the same time. the pilots are trained in a decompression or anything that might compromise the oxygen supply. the first thing they do is put on the oxygen masks and they put it on themselves and start dealing with the emergency. >> when you are exposed to something you shouldnt be dealing. w...