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Choice could be made about 370? >> well, there was a huge commercial interest in bringing the "titanic" back. people dreamed of having amusement parks with "titanic" sitting in it. it is really hard to bring back big things from the bottom of the ocean. i think that a good visual survey over a period of a week or two would give us a lot of information, coupled with the flight recorders to really make some conclusions of what happened. >> jules jaffe. fascinating having you on. >> my pleasure. a top official makes a rather eye-opening statement over who should control the black boxes if they ...

It. i think we have a good location for it. the sonar pinger was giving us a good radius of search, and i can't imagine all this debris is going to light up the sonar. and i think in the next week, hopefully we'll find it. >> okay, ultimately, though, the bulk of the titanic was left in its final resting place on the ocean floor. do you think the more time passes the same choice could be made about flight 370? >> well, there was a huge commercial interest in bringing the titanic back. i mean, people had dreamed of having amusement parks with the titanic in it. it is really hard to bring back s...

Turned out to be -- on april 5, china reported a possible ping from the chinese flight recorders. now some people are blaming the chinese for wasting time and resources in the search early on. tonight the chinese government is pushing back, after the "new york times" came out with this headline, suggesting chinese search efforts are hurting as well as helping. >> i think the point is the report is groundless and irresponsible. we express profound dissatisfaction over it. >> i just find that a little bit distasteful because i -- we can't have it both ways. there's enough frustration to go aroun...

Question to you. do black box flight recorders have serial numbers to prove that it's from flight 370? >> they do. black boxes are aircraft specific and they have identification numbers, as do literally almost all critical parts on the plane. they have unique identification numbers that say that that part is on this plane and those records have to be maintained by the airline. >> and that way they can always confirm, in case there was other debris or an area where let's say it wasn't at the bottom of the ocean, maybe the end of a runway, they could make sure that belongs to the flight in quest...

>> reporter: wolf, it sounds roughly similar to the investigations that get started like in washington, perhaps the space shuttle mission, the 9/11 commission. it's questions that need to be answered in a thoughtful way, this investigative committee will look into air worthiness, flight recorders, human factors, weather concerns, all of the things that really could help explain how a jumbo jet could seemingly go missing without a trace. with a couple hundred people on board. >> i want you to listen to what the defense minister said. listen to all of this. >> we did not go to the twin tower inc...