suffering and anguish airasia flight 8501 are going through right now. they have been living it every single day. that uncertainty of not knowing. the other thing families are hoping for is perhaps closure for these families also they want answers of their own. what must make it so much more difficult is the fact that they witnessed that when mh-370 went missing as we all did, knowing that s what s awaiting them must be unbearable. will ripley thank you so much for that. i want to bring in mary schiavo, department of transportation, she represented victims and families after disasters, former faa inspector, david succi. they said the early conject chur is that this plane is at the bottom of the sea. those were their words.
about. that one just doesn t have a whole lot of logic involved. this is a tweet from eric. he says if the pilot was able to disable acars, et cetera, how hard would it be to disable, disconnect black boxes? that s something we talked about actually a while ago. it seems they could have indeed turned off the black boxes. if indeed we find the flight data recorder, there might not be anything on them. mary schiavo, this is from david, and david says why don t pingers ping in unique code in morse instead of a common single ping? i would imagine then we would know for sure, you d say, well, it s doing this in morse code, nothing else does that. that s a good question. that is a good question. it s a very good point. the pipgers that we have, they re like they are because of the federal regulation. the federal regulation only
phone tower? the possibilities there seem rather strange. you know, one thing that was interesting that happened today, apparently the faa itself here in the united states just today introduced a new policy that flight, that the flight attendants aren t allowed to use their cell phones in flight, which you would think they would have done already a long time ago. but i think it s just a coincidence that that new policy came into effect today. david, to you now. what s your take on this? how important is this new piece of information you think? it speaks as mary said back to the credibility of the malaysian government and the way they re running this operation. i wanted to point out, i ve done a lot of time in the cockpit, thousands of hours observing, monitoring and understanding the processes and reporting to the faa how pilots perform in the cockpit. and every single time, the pilots in their checklist. it says turn off any communication devices. some airlines word it differently
you ve heard this report, what does it say to you? abnormal. abnormal situation. is it communication? we don t know. we still don t know what s behind it. we ll have to let this play out a little longer. thank you very much, martin and mitchell. first the author of extreme fear, and mary schiavo, now an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. david succi, author of why planes crash. brett larson, and jeffrey thomas, editor in chief of airli airlineratings.com. i want to go to brett larson. we discussed this in the beginning about why 239 people on board, those were the bulk of our twitter questions coming in from viewers, and now only one phone on in the plane? does that make sense? it doesn t make any sense at
come up before it finished the job today. six hours instead of 16 hours because it exceeded its depth. are searchers relying too heavily on one piece of technology in this part of the search, jeff? you know, when these, they use a similar technology to use air france 447 back in 2011, and at that time they had three of these devices working a search pattern together. it s not entirely clear to me, now that we re now several years later why there aren t more such submersibles available. i do understand these vehicles do exist. it would seem that this would be a fairly high priority task for them to be set upon. you know, hopefully, if we don t get results soon, maybe they ll be able to find more such devices to search the area. david, i m going to ask you because we have moved into this next phase now. but the information that we got about the pings. is that really the best