so much more. it s cost them a lot more. justly remember we have a great ability to get a lot of people to a lot of places. here is the quiz, when was the last airplane crash in america when is someone died? quite a while ago. don t jinx us. hold on. wait. are you talking regular size? there was one that steve brought quizes today. lovely quizes. do we go all the way back to the dominican republic flight? in 2009. what was that? i don t remember which one it was, but that was the last one. do you remember what the fare by the way, 19 we need to get to the new. in the 1970s, that would happen like every couple of days. that s the point. the nightmare at o hare, the nightmare over san diego. it happened all the time. people today don t understand that reading stories about commercial airline crashes was a
island. french air force have a base here. they will participate. it is confusing who has jurisdiction. in airline crashes, authorities, malaysian authorities have had jurisdiction up until now. australians being able to search as well. the australian authorities saying that this is not inn consistent with where it could end up given all of the studies they have done. they look at the gyres and currents of the ocean and weather and various weather patterns. they say this is not inconsistent inconsistent. one of the areas where they thought it could be. robyn kriel for us on reunion island. great to have a reporter there on the scene. thank you so much robyn. anxiously awaiting word if this debris is from mh-370. the families of the passengers and crew missing since the many
weather is thought to be the cause of the airasia case after the crew requested to change altitude because of weather. when you re in a storm and the engine is basically choking, like you re choking yourself, you re trying to get power back to the aircraft, trying to breathe and get the aircraft back into a stable zone. the high death toll for this year comes along with a record low number of civil airline crashes, which currently stands at 7. possibly eight, including airasia. anner that plane has still not been found. the presumed 239 people who perished in that case, and the added in with other aviation disaster this is year total 762 lives lost. that s the highest number since 2005 when 1,14 people were
truth of what may have happened to this plane? well, there s about a dozen conspiracy theories that filter to the top as being more reasonable than others. i think those that are the most likely are the ones that involve some government interaction. government interaction, is that something that you believe? it is because no individual group could have pulled this off. it s very clear that the plane has been hidden. whether it s still intact with passengers aboard or if there was wreckage, the wreckage was hidden. there s no way it could go missing like this. is this a sentiment that some of the other victims families believe as well? yeah. absolutely. because there s no evidence to the contrary. there s not been a single piece of wreckage for three full months, and in most airline crashes, any of them in water, there s wreckage usually for months and months afterwards. also, there s no explanation for
shallow water. but they are designed to function in water as deep as 20,000 feet. but what about the frequency? crews at sea picked up a slightly lower frequency than the pinger s stt frequency of 37.kilo hertz. they said water temperature can shift the frequency. it s so distinct, right? there s nothing else that would sound like this with this frequency? the 37.5 killo hertz was selected because of the background noise in the ocean. reporter: randi kaye, cnn, sarasota, florida. coming up, look at this. live pictures out of an aviation accident lab in california where they investigate airline crashes. so if flight 370 is ever found, what can experts learn examining pieces of the plane. we ll explore that coming up. qu, how much money do you think you ll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon