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Safe. >> notable comments from richard quest and les abin there. investigators continue to try to figure out what caused the crash in ethiopia this week minutes after takeoff. investigators are analyzing the black boxes to see if there is a link between that crash and the lion air crash in october. david mackenzie is live in ethiopia at the site of the disaster. give us the latest. >> good morning. there is a small group of forensic investigators behind me in white. they are waiting to access the scene to carefully go through to find evidence of what happened and why this brand new plane crash...

That's being said, it's not something that when you look at it you say, look this plane should not have been flying. yes, it's an older aircraft. it had many hours on it but still, many aircraft out there are still flying at this age. we don't believe at this point that age will be an issue. we understand it underwent a maintenance tech just yesterday and underwent a larger maintenance check in 2013. so it really just makes this mystery even deeper because you know it had been looked at by these engineers the day before anderson. >> thank you for joining us rene. now our panel. richard quest. ...

It crashed into the water, the debris can move in very, very wide circles. and also there have been crashes where there hasn't been much debris, even though there is debris on the ocean floor. it's hit or miss what will or will not float. and the 777 is tough. i used to be an aviation professor. and i would show is a film in my class of the 777 when it was broke. they actually broke one intentionally, and they flexed the wings to the point it would break away from the body. it wasn't a full 90 degrees up, but i would say it's a full 70 degrees. it's a very tough airplane. a lot of it might rem...

Malaysian authorities that that radar data, depending on the country is not too reliable. we realize that the indonesian radar is largely in disrepair. we realize there is something amiss with the malaysian radar given the delay in the handoff from civilian to military and the military did not send up any planes to look. it might not exist, that data. and i think it's in the ocean. but the thing that would support jeff's theorys is that we have just been trusting that the country said they provided radar, and we said okay, that's their radar. so that's not really reliable. it's probably not re...

Let's introduce les abin. boeing 777 captain. i think you had a question. >> yeah, commander marks, just to clarify something, do you think it is possible that the signals that you're receiving may be from both the digital flight data recorder and from the cockpit voice recorder? >> yes, so there are a couple of indications we had. first i should let you know there was a slight variation in frequency, and that can be expected. that is not something completely out of line. but on that first day we did have the same type of signal coming from two locations. the second day we couldn't quite decip...