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Object we believed to be not more than one meter by one meter. >> reporter: they launched a team, imflatable raft and they had enough fuel to direct them to the object. >> it was a large bred basket, the kind you'd find in a supermarket holding 20 loaves of bread. >> reporter: not from mh370. another frustration. the mission goes on. now that was just one sorties in many hundreds of sorties that have flown across much of the swathe of the oceans. they are so good and dedicated, despite how tedious and monotonous this is, they can pick up birds when there's whitecaps along the ocean. incredible...

Mystery in human -- mankind which is what angus houston said recently. lots of false alarms came out of this, and it must have been so difficult on the crews that were out there, but you were there with them on a daily basis. you said it seemed like their mood declined rapidly during this search. >> yes. >> i can't imagine what it was like for the families. for us it felt like "groundhog day" every single day. what was it like for them? >> i think, you know, in the very beginning there was a lot of hope. i know one of the first crew that's we flew with thought we're finding this plane. it was ...

Which is what angus houston said recently. lots of false alarms came out of this, and it must have been so difficult on the crews that were out there, but you were there with them on a daily basis. you said it seemed like their mood declined rapidly during this search. >> yes. >> i can't imagine what it was like for the families. for us it felt like "groundhog day" every single day. what was it like for them? >> i think, you know, in the very beginning there was a lot of hope. i know one of the first crew that we flew with thought, we're finding this plane. it was probably a week in. you know,...

That could help search teams get around one of the biggest challenges in the indian ocean, the nasty weather. >> the folks that are searching atwater level, sea level, it's very difficult, it's rough, lots of whitecaps, rain, cloud. and, you know, it's very, very difficult to spot debris. >> and it's all just a bunch of hooey, because you can only search a few square miles a day, and they don't have any idea where this is. here's why i say that. first, they searched here, and then they searched here. and now they searched over here. this is about the size of nebraska. now they're searching her...

Intelligence than they are telling us. it may be mired in politics and military defense posturing. but i'm absolutely convinced they do know broadly where this airplane is. and they are bringing in more resources so the malaysian prime minister coming down, i think, it adds credibility to we are look in the right place. >> all right. >> but going back to the satellite images we were talking about earlier, there's real question marks about the analysis of those images and the fact that some of those pieces of fuselage or wing were whitecaps on the water. i think questions have to be raised abou...