Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Report 20140407 03:45:00 : v

so important, in the words of a former ntsb investigator, if there was a problem with the plane, it could be fleet wide. and if that s the case and no one knows about it, he said guess what? they ll know about it the next time it happens. and that s not good at all. of course, the same is true of unidentified security issues. cnn, washington. renee, thank you very much. my panel is back now. les, you fly 777 how important do you think it is to find this missing passenger jet to determine exactly what went wrong and how to improve. how important is that? it s extremely important. the public has lost confidence. they don t know what to lose confidence in, actually. is it the airplane? we ve been talking about how well designed it is. but, you know, the public is saying, hey, we re going to get on an airplane. we could be lost in the middle of nowhere. so it s very important to find this. so we talked about the shoe bomber.