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Order to get how close do you have to be? >> well, you know, ideally, within a few miles. there have been situations where they have been able to pick them up more than just a few miles away, two, three miles and then further out they have picked them up. but thats why they send the ships back and forth. its easier if they can hear them right on top. and then thats also why they send the submersibles, the unmanned submarines that go down and to listen and find them. and so the navy equipment and...

42,000 foot height an the rate of climb. at 45,000, unless the plane depressurized, the oxygen mask would fall and they have the little canisters, everyone knows what they look like after the value jet crashed. they were at issue. there were little cannisterses that would not have killed the passengers. and they would have the oxygen for the period of time the canisters will supply it. >> is a catastrophic mechanical failure completely out of the question now in your point of view? >> well, it w...

They have the submersiblsubmers. in valuejet, it was divers that found them. in valujet, they touched them. theyre far from out of hope at this point. they just started on the black boxes. >> how involved is the u.s.? >> well, you have americans -- youre going to have some of the family members of one victim, once there are americans involved, the u.s. law enforcement, the fbi could -- takes the lead for the u.s. role, and theyll coordinate and provide support to malaysian authorities, theyll wo...

The seats, the life vests, the life raft, the service carts. there have been cases where parts of the wing and the tail have been able to float, so i dont have any doubt that they will eventually find it, and i believe firmly they will get those black boxes, they always do. but this wont be the first case where it has taken four or five days for the debris to appear. >> the good news on this compared to that air france flight, that water was 13,000 feet deep. the water where they are searching i...

Error. in fact, a ten-year study by boeing shows nearly two-third of aircraft losses are due to human factors. even without the wreckage, investigators should be interviewing everyone who touched that plane. those who loaded food. pilots who flew this jet on earlier flight. maintenance records. cargo handlers. in fact, it was improperly stored cargo that led to a fire which brought down a value jet in the florida everglades. >> so we need to keep an open mind. continue the search, find the wreck...

System. >> if its doing that now, why arent we finding it? >> and the lte is the emergency locater transmitter, which is why -- >> its just not strong enough? >> no, these are conundrums as to why we havent got the answers. >> clearly, it has to get the hackles on the back of your neck tingli tingling. >> and the black boxes are more limited. theyre powered by battery, 30 days of battery and other accidents in the past, they had to use submersibles to find them. air france, value jet in the ever...

Tail. all that will float. and there is nothing. it is very, very surprising. it almost makes you think of planes lost in world war ii and when he find them at the bottom of the ocean years later. but those are old fashioned planes. todays modern planes have so many electronics on them, unless it was a catastrophic loss, its hard to fathom how a plane could remain intact under the water. >> because you would think in this day and age of gps, transponders, you cant go anywhere without people know...

The reaction also produces heat with temperatures up to 500 degrees fahrenheit. the combination of heat and pure oxygen creates a voracious fire. inside the hold, the pure oxygen allows the fire to burn through the liner and up into the cabin, melting the floor beams under the passengers feet. >> they discovered it had already burnt up pretty much in the sky. >> there was a breakdown. there was a series of communications break downs. a lot of safety changes came about as a result there is a proh...