arm, will have the cameras, the lights, which will be able to extricate these black boxes and bring them to the surface, hopefully. hopefully. that s a big h, hopefully. every time i keep thinking about the amount of work it would take, even if there were divers with eyes and hands to find those things. thank you. christine dennison, thomas, david altshuler. how many millions of dollars has been spent? how much does it cost every single day to do this? how much longer is the commitment going to be there to pay for all of this? you might be surprised. also up next, a college tour for a group of california high school students turns deadly when their bus collided with a fedex truck. the images harrowing. perhaps most unbelievable, those who were able to survive this. we ve got their stories coming up next. across america, people like basketball hall of famer
scotia in 1988, the search recovery and investigation took four years and cost $39 million. but what of the collateral costs of missteps and mismanagement of the investigation? frankly, the malaysian government has not handled this at all well. and that s clearly cost time and resources. reporter: the many governments engaged in this search already own these assets, including ships and planes. so one way for them to look at this at least is an extended high-stakes training exercise. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. joining me to talk about the cost of the search is cnn analyst david suse, expert christine dennison. on the phone from boston is oceanographer david gallo who helped in the search for air france flight 447. with your background in searching for two years for air
really admiral work. can they recover any of the money that they re spending? actually, speaking with the former inspector general for the faa, she stated that yes, they can, they can actually go back. she mentioned there s a $1 billion policy on that flight. from the malaysians? malaysian air has a $1 billion policy on that, or typically does. so that $1 billion can be spent to help families, of course, but also to recoacher t recover the do they sue for it or simply ask? asking doesn t work too well. asking in court. it will be fascinating. these are costs we ve never encountered before. remarkable. david gallo, christine dennison, david sousie, thank you. we ve now reached week five. how long can the families endure? how long can they go on? sometimes getting pretty mixed messages? we re going to check back in