woods hole oceanographic institute. and former transportation executive mary schiavo, who currently investigates accidents for families. all right, richard, i want to talk about this interview he just did. mary, let me start with you here. because richard pressed the prime minister on the notion that flight 370 took this turn over the left-hand peninsula, they tracked it on military radar and they did not track it with jets. the prime minister told richard that for some reason, some how it was not hostile. is that a satisfying explanation to you? no, it s not. and you can tell that richard had searzeroed right in on the weakest point. because how do you know it is not hostile? he said well, it was civilian aircraft. well, then either you knew it was mh-370 or you didn t, and if you didn t know what it was,
prime minister on the notion that flight 370 took this turn over the left-hand peninsula, they tracked it on military radar and they did not track it with jets. the prime minister told richard that for some reason, some how it was not hostile. is that a satisfying explanation to you? no, it s not. and you can tell that richard had zeroed right in on the weakest point. because how do you know it is not hostile? he said well, it was civilian aircraft. well, then either you knew it was mh-370 or you didn t, and if you didn t know what it was, obviously you have to go find out. i think that richard was reading the tea leaves pretty well, it may have been somebody junior or somebody left their station and the malaysian prime minister was just never going to say that. so i think that richard did a masterful job trying to pin him down. and richard, that means if you accept the explanation
not only with the fudging of the investigation but also with the really irresponsible and disrespectful treatment of the families. sarah there was one point that he made or actually one thing he didn t say. he refused now to say that he believes the plane is lost, where just one month ago he seemed to indicate. you know, he said the words that the flight ended in the indian ocean. what do you make of what seems to be a bit of a contradiction here? i make that out to be political maneuvering. i think that maybe they re starting to open their eyes a little bit to the fact that some mistake mistakes have been made. and it is best to reallocate blame to somebody else. and you do that by backing off of your statements. this is not an unprecedented situation. it is only an unprecedented outlook. there have been multiple issues where the transponders have been turned off, multiple issues where the plane was taken.
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orion, which is a very powerful side scan sonar that can be towed behind a ship. the advantage of that, it sends back realtime data to the mother ship. and of course it can save time and go much deeper than the bluefin. michael holmes, thank you so much, news about this phase could come any time now. and what is news to us is deeply personal to anyone with connections to anyone on the flight. they have a hunger for the truth that so far has gone largely unmet. it is not that they re expecting the final word on what happened to the boeing triple 7 more than a month and a half ago. many are demanding far more information from the officials, especially from the malaysian authorities. right now you re looking at chinese families marching on the embassy in beijing. similar confrontations have been taking place in kuala lumpur. tonight, we ll speak to one of