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Order to get how close do you have to be? >> well, you know, ideally, within a few miles. there have been situations where they have been able to pick them up more than just a few miles away, two, three miles and then further out they have picked them up. but that's why they send the ships back and forth. it's easier if they can hear them right on top. and then that's also why they send the submersibles, the unmanned submarines that go down and to listen and find them. and so the navy equipment and the coast guard equipment in this country, the coast guard equipment, is very important to try t...

42,000 foot height an the rate of climb. at 45,000, unless the plane depressurized, the oxygen mask would fall and they have the little canisters, everyone knows what they look like after the value jet crashed. they were at issue. there were little cannisterses that would not have killed the passengers. and they would have the oxygen for the period of time the canisters will supply it. >> is a catastrophic mechanical failure completely out of the question now in your point of view? >> well, it would be if we had any other clues whatsoever. i still find it difficult we could have what clearly m...

They have the submersiblsubmers. in valuejet, it was divers that found them. in valujet, they touched them. they're far from out of hope at this point. they just started on the black boxes. >> how involved is the u.s.? >> well, you have americans -- you're going to have some of the family members of one victim, once there are americans involved, the u.s. law enforcement, the fbi could -- takes the lead for the u.s. role, and they'll coordinate and provide support to malaysian authorities, they'll work with their thai counterparts, where the passports were stolen, they'll work with interpol, an...

The seats, the life vests, the life raft, the service carts. there have been cases where parts of the wing and the tail have been able to float, so i don't have any doubt that they will eventually find it, and i believe firmly they will get those black boxes, they always do. but this won't be the first case where it has taken four or five days for the debris to appear. >> the good news on this compared to that air france flight, that water was 13,000 feet deep. the water where they are searching is 296 feet which is not deep at all. >> that's right, it will be easier on the searchers, they hav...

Error. in fact, a ten-year study by boeing shows nearly two-third of aircraft losses are due to human factors. even without the wreckage, investigators should be interviewing everyone who touched that plane. those who loaded food. pilots who flew this jet on earlier flight. maintenance records. cargo handlers. in fact, it was improperly stored cargo that led to a fire which brought down a value jet in the florida everglades. >> so we need to keep an open mind. continue the search, find the wreckage, find those black boxes and begin to solve this mystery. >> reporter: those two black boxes, whi...