Page 42 - Flight Recorders News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

If and when the wreckage of malaysia airlines flight 370 is located, one of the most advanced underwater search vehicles in existence will join the hunt for the flight recorders. cnn's rosa flores is here with more on how that search vehicle works. rosa, this is the thing that would go down and actually pluck the recorders out of the wreckage. >> yeah, i know you and i talked about it off camera because i learned about rovs at the dinner table because my husband is a subsea engineer. >> not many could say that. >> that's how i'm familiar with the vehicles remote operated vehicles and used by t...

>> the rov can stay submerged for days. >> reporter: and the hope is with these capabilities, the rov will finally manage to bring some answers to the surface. so, jim, i talked to some of the industry experts including some folks that worked in the air france flight 447 search team and one of the things they told me that these rovs can do is they can give you a map of the ocean floor of the debris field. so, with these rovs they're able to fly them around different -- different pieces of debris and then you're able to figure out where the engines ended up, where the fuselage ended up, where t...

Was flying that airplane. >> all right. this is for karlene. it is from phillip. was there any kind of air marshal on the jet? >> i have no idea if there was an air marshal. i highly doubt it with malaysia. >> okay. bill, a question from ashley. ashley says, "if and when mh-370 is located what are the chances of recovering the victims and how?" >> well, for 15,000 feet of water, that's going to be very difficult. probably the number one priority still has to be the flight recorders. until we find those we have nothing. >> here's a question from james. it says, "why not get a u.s. nuclear sub i...

Believe, however, that somebody was flying that airplane. >> this is for karlene. it is from phillip. was there any kind of air marshal on the jet? >> i have no idea if there was an air marshal. i highly doubt it with malaysia. >> bill, a question from ashley. it says if and when mrk h-370 is located what are the chances of recovering the victims and how? >> well, for 15,000 feet of water that's going to be very difficult. probably the number one priority still has to be the flight recorders. until we find those we have nothing. >> here's a question from james. it says why not get a u.s. nucle...

Set up a team to specifically look in to the flight 370 case. joe, what does this investigative committee supposed to do? >> well, it sounds roughly similar to the commissions that the get started in washington when there's a disaster, perhaps like the space shuttle commission, the 9/11 commission, don. it's acceptance of the fact that malaysia has questions that need to be answered in a thoughtful way, i think, about mh-370. they will look at airworthiness, human factors, flight recorders, medical concerns, weather, survival factors. all the things that could explain how a jumbo jet could van...