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Welcome back to "the lead" and more now on our world lead. despite a number of inexplicable setbacks and flubs, malaysian authorities still insist they wouldn't have done anything differently in this investigation. on friday the radar revealed that the plane flew a much shorter distance. authorities admit the latest change only came about when the two international teams trying to pinpoint the crash site actually started talking to each other. so why weren't they working together from the start? joining me now, john is a "wall street journal" aerospace and boeing reporter. you've got one team ...

It is scheduled to go on for 30 days and could end before then. joining me now, fox news correspondent, former navy pilot of f-18s. leah gabriel is back, good to see you. we started 1500 miles down here, right? >> uh-huh. >> how did they get a new search area? >> what they're saying is this is based on radar data and an analysis of that, i flew f-18s, basically we always were paying attention when we were flying out at sea to the amount of fuel we had. if we flew higher we could go further with our fuel. they're saying based on the speed they believe the plane was going, and altitude, that it ...

Controllers were released. they saw the transcript first. maybe added pressure from the family will force officials to release other things, jim. >> you know, it certainly poses the question on that front. that is if you want to blame the pilots for this as many have been wanting to do, you look at this transcript and say there's no evidence here. you also have -- if there was a political motive, where's the manifesto. if it was a hijacking, where are demands. it's all kinds of things that don't add up. still, officials say international investigators on the ground and malaysian investigators ...

The southern indian ocean and what essentially lost time against these black boxes which have about 30 days of battery life left on them. >> this is costly stuff. you have a lot of planes and ships flying over there. what was inmarsat's involvement? you mentioned that inmarsat was, quote, a long way removed. meanwhile, inmarsat had arguably the best information on the map. why were they not involved more closely? >> certainly early on during the first three weeks of the investigation, inmarsat was combing their databases trying to figure out where this airplane may have ended up. started off w...

Journal" report says this. that search teams were looking in the wrong place, for not one, not two, but three days. because of poor coordination. one group analyzing radar data. the other analyzing satellite images. both coming up with different possible crash sites. all of that and here today, 20 planes and shifts have been scouring what they hope is the right place in the southern indian ocean. >> this could drag on for a long time. but i think at this stage, it's very important to pursue the leads. the evidence that is being presented to us. >> back to that transcript here. no indication of...