never find flight 370? what happens to the families? what happens to malaysia s struggling government? who s held responsible and who holds them accountable? in a part of a world with a volatile geopolitical, political, ethnic set of tensions these questions are difficult to ask but at some point they have to be answered. jim keith was the u.s. ambassador to malaysia and daniel rose an aviation expert and attorney. he s represented families in several high-profile aviation disasters. let me go to former ambassador keith. this performance by the malaysian government has been uneven, raggedy at times. do you have a sense of what it is they re most nervous about? all countries would be nervous in a situation like this. what are their fears? chris, i think it s clear that they re not practiced and not able to manage this in the spotlight of international scrutiny. they haven t had the experience necessary to pull this off. i don t think there s a
in less than an hour, the intense search for flight 370 will start again in one small part of o a giant ocean. in the spot where china says their satellite spotted something. the families of the passengers showing their frustration and lashing out after two weeks already of false leads and deadends and who can blame them. with us is justin green and christine vennson to talk about this, particularly the plight of the families. justin, you have dealt with families who suffered through 9/11 and other aviation disasters. how gutting is it and how traumatizing to go through this without any answers, two weeks now of really just no idea what happened and no closure. i mean no one can really know what they are going through until you go through it. the other thing is there s cultural issues of how people deal with grieving. there are common issues.
all we re left with these questions what happens if we never find flight 370? what happens to the families? what happens to malaysia s struggling government? who s held responsible and who holds them accountable? in a part of a world with a volatile geopolitical, political, ethnic set of tensions these questions are difficult to ask but at some point they have to be answered. jim keith was the u.s. ambassador to malaysia and daniel rose an aviation expert and attorney. he s represented families in several high-profile aviation disasters. let me go to former ambassador keith. this performance by the malaysian government has been uneven, raggedy at times. do you have a sense of what it is they re most nervous about? all countries would be nervous in a situation like this. what are their fears? chris, i think it s clear that they re not practiced and not able to manage this in the spotlight of international scrutiny. they haven t had the experience necessary to pull this off. i don t
you know, sitting not beneath a lot of mud, let s say, emitting a signal straight out. then that signal could go for several miles and maybe you get lucky. but that s very much the optimistic point of view. again, even that, all predicated on the idea that this is even debris from this aircraft which it very well may not be. seth kaplan from airline weekly. thank you so much. thank you. joining me now, bob hager, nbc news aviation correspondent. he s supposed to be enjoying retirement right now. he s covered so many aviation disasters. we invite him back for his insights on this story. first of all, we got information today that the radar information that the plane had made this turn was held for four days by the malaysian authorities. what does that do to the search? well, it sure slows things up. i mean, this thing was kind of mishandled from the start by the malaysian people. other than disorganization, there s no real explanation for it.
volatile geopolitical ethnic set of tensions these questions are difficult to ask but at some point they have to be answered. jim keith was the u.s. ambassador to malaysia and daniel rose an aviation expert and attorney. he s represented families in several high-profile aviation disasters. let me go to former ambassador keith. this performance by the malaysian government has been uneven, raggedy at times. do you have a sense of what it is they re most nervous about? all countries would be nervous in a situation like this. what are their fears? chris, i think it s clear that they re not practiced and able to manage this many the spotlight of international scrutiny. they haven t had the experience necessary to pull this off. i don t think there s a conspiracy here. they re not holding back information on the basis of a calculated move. they re just not handling it well from the ones heart goes