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Plane and the 239 people on it. search aircraft headed for the open ocean. we go live in perth right now, australia. that's a home base for the search. do we know if the planes are in the search area yet? and will you hear an update from them when they're on mission, so to speak? >> yeah. we're not getting those types of details. but if you do the math, from what we've seen over the last several days, we do know that some of the planes are there. i can definitely tell you the u.s. navy's p-8 poseidon took off a short time ago. that's when it was scheduled to. this is america's -- one of americ...

Plane and the 239 people on it. several high tech search aircraft including one from the u.s. navy left western australia heading for the open ocean. kyung lah live in perth now in australia. that's home base for this search, kyung. do we know if the planes are in the search area yet and will you hear an update from them when they're on this -- on mission, so to speak? >> reporter: yeah, we're not getting those types of details. but if you do the math, from what we have seen over the last several days, we do know that at least some of the planes are there. i can definitely tell you the u.s. na...

Critical of the malaysian authorities? are you critical -- who are you critical of if anyone? >> having been in this position before, i'm not -- >> been an investigator yourself. >> i've been an investigator myself. i'm not critical of anyone because you have to work with the data you have. so they're grabbing data as quickly as they can from many sources. not all the data is compatible with each other. it takes time. so i'm glad that the ntsb guys are there, i know they're super and they'll give the full cooperation to the investigation. >> here's what so many people have asked me over these ...