original site to this site. i am saying his original side was the crash site. the debris would have drifted in this direction anyway. mary, what about this new search area. tell me how they use this new math to get to this point? they put fresh eyes on this. the change is a really good sign. first of all, they have said they have brought in ntsb people and faa people and extra people to look at the data and the plane s performance. undoubtedly, they checked with boeing as well. boeing is being very quiet. they surely did to check the plane s performance. they have calculated this new area. what s good about it. it shows they are not making some rookie mistakes. rookie mistakes would lead to criminal investigation or an air crash investigation. there is something in the anchoring effect in your confirmation bias. the first piece of data you
this before. a lot of criticism heaped on their heads. how much is deserved in your opinion? i feel like we re watching them learn how to conduct an air crash investigation. that s an unfortunate thing. a steady hand and some experience would be good in this case. ways talking to former ntsb chairman jim hall said. he said if a nation is buying something as complex as a 777 it should be able to demonstrate it has the expertise and capability to perform and conduct a thorough investigation if something bad happens. and if they can t demonstrate that, perhaps there should be some sort of memorandum of understanding with another nation that has that capability. in this case maybe australia or new zealand or the united kingdom. whatever the case may be. so i think there s a responsibility when you re flying something as complex as a boeing 777 to be able to conduct an investigation like this. because it is really, as we re talking about it here right now, it is a global issue. the whole
many people are so fixated on this mystery flight is because there s so much misinformation. is this a factor of bad management on the part of the malaysian government? or is there something more afoot? i m going to just take that. it s not that there s misinformation, it s there s no information. but there is misinformation. the debris that s been floating, the that s normal. that is not information. that s not misinformation. we really this is not air crash investigation a 30-minute program on television that s going to start beautifully at the beginning and end at the end with a result we can all sort of watch. this is happening in realtime. it is quite normal to have pictures coming up of potential debris that you find out not to be, have allegations of this that prove not to be. where there is a deficiency in this investigation is that it s being played out in a seemingly unorganized fashion by the
thousand agents on this investigation. we took the missile theory, the possibility of missile brought down the plane very, very seriously. you know, at that time in 96, we were at a very high state of alert here in the united states. 747s don t blow up in fireballs seen for 40 miles. the missile theory is not new. back at the time, a journalist said he had evidence that it was friendly fire from the navy gunners. what do you make of that? peter sallinger spent some time in the u.s. senate. over in france, apparently three sheets to the wind, waving a piece of paper saying this is a report from french intelligence that says the uss normandy shot down this plane, which was absolute total bunk. it was the rantings of some nut on the internet and it was debunked. the technology has changed a lot since then. do you think it would make sense for the ntsd, the fbi to bring together a team and at least run
there are striking new claims tonight about a plane crash that really hit the country hard. a 747, or the safest airliner on earth, blown out of the sky. one minute, everything aboard flight 800 was normal. the next, the plane falling into pieces off the coast of long island, new york, killing everyone on board. and prompting perhaps the most thorough investigation. investigators literally reassembled the aircraft to determine how it came apart. it still exists in a hangar in virginia. now the producers of a new documentary and some retired investigators say the official theory about blaming an explosion on the fuel tank is wrong. they claim in the words of the film s own material that the investigation was systematically undermined. today, they petitioned to reopen the investigation. in a moment, one of those retired investigators as well as