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Know exactly what we know and how they know it. >> david gallo, one month on, does this go on for two months, for three months? you've been involved with long, long searches before, obviously. when is it time to change the nature of it or at least admit you're not looking the same way you did before? >> right now, again, with air france one of our secrets was to make it a committee-free zone. so the committees are important. the sharing of knowledge is important. but at the end of the day it was a small group of people, a single team, a single ship, a single technology with a single mission an...

And we had to block out everything that we could and just get down to the mission of mapping the sea floor. it was a big task, but we got the task done. and again, nothing happens quickly once you get beneath the waves. we're going to have to have patience to see what this team turns up. >> mary, what do you make of this discussion? >> i think one thing to note is the first step on the written report, actually the first step is a public hearing, is an open hearing. and the key thing when the ntsb takes on a crash is with that first public hearing, the fact-finding hearing, they release the doc...

It isn't peer reviewed in the conventional way that scientists would view it. it's proprietary information headed into an investigation that is considered secret. so we understand why they haven't released it. but this is bleeding edge science. this is the kind of thing that has never been done before by a satellite not designed to do this. why not open this up to the world, to the minds of the world? scientists, engineers the world over to pore over it. maybe there's a nugget in there. how does that compromise this investigation to do that? >> richard? >> i think because it's a slippery slope...

Look at, we are one month on, john. it's time for them to give a first written report, a statement of facts, so they we know exactly what we know and how they know it. >> david gallo, one month on, does this go on for two months, for three months? you've been involved with long, long searches before, obviously. when is it time to change the nature of it or at least admit you're not looking the same way you did before? >> right now, again, with air france one of our secrets was to make it a committee-free zone. so the committees are important. the sharing of knowledge is important. but at the e...

Is a public hearing, is an open hearing. and the key thing when the ntsb takes on a crash is with that first public hearing, the fact-finding hearing, they release the docket. there for public scrutiny go the human factors group, the aircraft group, the weather group, the air traffic control group. and they put all those documents on a public docket so the world can see. and i think that would be very useful with that first step. i don't want the written report to be the first step. i want a public hearing. >> a lot more to talk about this obviously. coming up next we'll take a closer look at ...