maybe it is buffer between them and the people they are dealing with? for some families it makes them feel they have some power. they are frustrated and not getting answers. the families have been approached within days of the crash, those attorneys people should be suspect of. they need to find people who have handled these kind of cases in the past and they are not knocking on their door. in the 45-day period that you talked about under the family assistance act applies to crashes in the united states as to u.s. attorneys. there s some question as to whether it applies overseas. we know in this case there have been lawyers in china days of the crash trying to solicit cases which in the united states would be barred. instead of doing that, the attorneys who are contacted by the victims know what they are doing, can assist the families and i think there is a vehicle for getting information and answers in the united states
investigatio investigation. they aren t specific enough as the u.s. rules are to say there s a family assistance act and says you will give updates, will get briefs and will release the information to the families. that doesn t exist in the international community. that s where we are with this. they need to address that. you said the locate beacons, elts, black boxes, all of that, it s just really how can none of these things you can hear none of them, find none of it, no debris, no nothing. it s not very uncommon to have an accident where the two elts don t go off. it s not that uncommon. they re not 100% reliable. they do work well. they re not required by far 121 or in this civil world for commercial air transport either. because they re not required, we re not certain they were actually on the aircraft. they were delivered from boeing
well, it s not normally held off. at least in a u.s. investigation, we have the family assistance act which requires that briefings and updates are provided to the families. so a lot of that information should be available. it s not there s no international civil aviation that is possible and it appears to be a very closed investigation. i don t know if that s because it s still criminal or not because with those it holds information for a long time. i guess there is a question about whether or not the governments can keep heading up the search or whether it can be handed off to a private industry, whether they can do it cheaper or quicker. david gallo has said that it be flown to perth. do you think they are going to hand this over to commercial or private groups? i think it s always going to
hard to imagine a more vulnerable time for the families of the passengers on flight 370 and sadly, it did not take long for the lawyers to take full advantage to cash in. 17 days, to be exact. in somewhat stereotypical fashion, american lawyers have lined up in asia, they re there right now. cnn s legal correspondent, jeanjean casar casarez, looks at why these families are easy prey for what some might call money-grubbing lawyers. what a vulnerable time, ashleigh. and in 1996, the family assistance act passed by congress says in an aviation disaster, attorneys have to allow 45 days before they can make cold calls, solicit potential clients, families of victims in an aviation disaster. but that has not stopped
thanks very much. i appreciate it. read the list you wrote up. the eight lessons you heard from the case and number one, you said focusing primarily on terrorism can ob cure other threats. it is actually pilot error half of the time. that s the cause of airline accidents. yes, it is. the biggest concern is pilot error. the piece that i wrote for yahoo news outlined eight operate lessons that we continued to learn. unfortunately in some cases over and over again. the next of kin, the family members of the passengers. we saw here back in 1996, the passage of the family assistance act and saw last month with the u.s. department of transportation saw asiana