people and video that it exploded in mid flight. so you have this fireball in this sky, seen by other pilots and people on the ground and the pieces coming down in the atlantic ocean in about 130 feet of water, similar to the depth of this crash. because it exploded that led to the speculation it could be terrorism or it could have been sabotage or a bomb on board by who knows who. and that s why, for a long time there was a joint investigation with the fbi and the ntsb working together to get to the bottom of it. ultimately thankfully because the plane was in shallow water, divers were able to by hand sift through the silt on the bottom and later find clutchmps of wires indicating they had sparked, there was a surge of electricity through the fuel tank and they were able to look at the blast pattern, the way
peaceful. but let s deal with the real issue. the real issue there are numerous current federal investigations under way. the garner incident is now subject to a continuing federal service rights investigation. the michael brown incident the very same. there are more than ten police departments in this country that are under federal consent decrees, which means they admitted and agreed that they had systemic problems. so we ve got to confront the underlying problem. and the underlying problem happens to be that policing in this country, in many communities, is in need of a reform. and is in need of a reform that brings police and communities together. and i want to have that dialogue with law enforcement, with politicians, with community leaders across the nation. that s what we ve got to do in 2015 is have the conversation that leads to i think, the
we ve had several examples of a passenger who said they had a life jack oat and they ended up not having a flight jack oat and there were pieces coming out in the investigation and we are dealing with a culture here which is not the same as the cultures that would be there in the case of western investigation investigation. i think we have to understand that the world requires a consistent standard in the conduct in aviation and we ve achieved enormous levels of safety in which all of the parts have to work well together and the air traffic controllers and there is a big difference between what the pilots have to do tactically when he s in the air and when it comes to releasing information i ve noticed something going on here that concerns the radar and the fixing of where the plane was with the radar and we ve had this, the information that was
not all of them are equipped to analyze the data? the french have taken responsibility for the investigation, so i would suspect it would go there, but it could go to the australia or the united states. miles, which country in the region is best suited to head up this investigation? certainly the capability of discerning what s inside those black boxes and flight data recorder, the closest country that can handle that is the australians. the indonesians have done nothing to dissuade us that they can handle this and they are operating in a fairly methodical manner. but in the end, the french have a strong seat at the table here because there will be questions, of course about the performance of the aircraft the airbus european product, made in france.
and they will be very curious to know what happened. so i suspect it will be a collaboration, and that s the way these things should be. as we said coming out of flight 370, no one nation should be responsible for these things because these issues affect all of us who fly all over the planet. we re hearing comparisons to the recovery of this flight comparisons to twa 800, which crashed in the mid 90s. it crashed in the waters off of long island. is that an accurate comparison in the cause factors are certainly not. we ll know more about it after the aircraft is starting to be brought out of the ocean. it s not really if this is a different investigation, we were trying to prove something with that other investigation, what there was a bomb on board. so it had to be rebuilt from the ground up to determine the