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>> so who should lead this investigation? >> terms of -- that's the big question. ukrainians are already saying they're doing it. should it be somebody else? but who else would it be? should it be the europeans, a combination of the bea of france, the aaib? that's going to be the big issue. >> matthew, let's talk a little bit more about that. the fact that the plane came down in territory controlled by russian separatists. >> right. >> suggest that they will have control of the flight's black box. who should they give it to and who will they give it to, as a matter of fact? >> the interesting ...

You know a lot about this. ben gurion just the other day, the pilot was telling us about the special security procedures all commercial xsh aircraft take coming into israel. stand by for that. richard quest is getting more information. what are you picking up? >> well, there was nos distress call. the aircraft involved will have had the a cars automatic reporting system. i understand tonight in enmar sat has now provided the data that it would have received from the aircraft at the time of whatever happened whether it was a missile or whatever. they have now provided that data to the british i...

Aaib, and they will not confirm that. they gave this data to other organizations who then went away, made their own models, ran those models not just against mh-370 but against dozens of other planes that were in the air at the same time and against planes on previous flights, and they always got roughly the same results. so, what inmarsat is quite clearly and bluntly saying is, it's worked in all these cases. why on earth, nobody has shown why it's not working on this particular case. they have an extremely high level of confidence that they're right, that the plane flew south and that the fl...

These are the other organizations that checked the work. they did their own models independently and came to the same result. and that they haven't done yet. now, we know the ntsb, the aaib, we know rolls royce, we know boeing, there are a whole variety of companies that have all worked with them on this. so far, none of those other bodies have been prepared to say, yep, we are the ones who verified inmarsat's data. >> finally, richard, one piece of information that seems to be coming out of the analysis over the last few hours is the idea that this idea explains now how they came to the concl...

Welcome back. time for our experts to answer your questions. first one will go to michael kay. we have a question from mabel. mabel says what are the first steps taken in the investigation once the plane is found? >> i guess my answer to that, don, is which part of the plane is found first. that is critical. if it is surface debris, i think the huge bit of the investigation will be allowing closure for the families. that will be absolutely key. we have been talking about bypassing the hay stack and going if for needle. and that is the black box and fdr and cvr. there are memorandums of underst...