families because they are looking for their loved ones and would like to get some answers but not meaningless to the malaysian government and the air traffic control systems down there that are trying to fix these problems and they have to get it fixed. this report is just the impetus they need, the catalyst to make some changes and improve the safety of traveling in that area. david, i spent weeks in malaysia following this story and i have toll you one much surprises i heard out of this report is that maintenance records show the battery for the underwater locator beacon had actually expired. the report says there is no evidence it had been replaced. can you talk about how big of a mistake that was? especially since everybody was looking for u.s. some sign of the beacon? joe, i remember those reports with you down there and diligently reporting what was going on. if you recall, we had a maintenance person from
the maintenance records because the plane, while it was built by boeing, it had to be maintained. so you have to see if anything went wrong by the plane, if it was caused by bad marintenance. once that occurs you also have to call in your experts, lawyers have to hire their own experts to then explain to the court and to the jury what happened. so you have several layers of discovery and information about that plane and the operation of that plane and the maintenance of that plane before you could really bring in boeing or the engine manufacturer. but that being said, it s there will be cases filed. the 45 days just means that you can that lawyers can now go out and seek the cases. it doesn t mean that they ve have to start filing cases. and so, mary, you mention among the things, maintenance records. there was a list that many family members presented to malaysia authorities saying we want you to meet these it eems the list. they wanted maintenance records. they said no way, we
the investigators here have been holding all their information, it is, perhaps, slightly out of the ordinary and also slightly out of the ordinary they have not played the recordings to the families of the first officer and the captain, don. nic, tell us about these groups that the malaysian government is forming as part of the investigation. yeah, three groups. airworthiness, operations and medical. airworthiness is looking at the maintenance records, those sorts of things, the background of the aircraft leading up to this day. the operations will be focused on the flight recordings should those black boxes be recovered. their role will increase once some of the debris is in the hands of investigations, if that happens. and then there is the medical side which will if eventually the aircraft is found, will also
the clues that they have put together that lead them to the conclusion that they need to search in the indian ocean. chris? we ll take it here, barbara starr, thank you so much. we know so many complicating factors in this mystery. we want to talk about it with mary sciavo. going from a chessboard to a football field. i want to ask you about that. this far into the investigation, generally, you would expect the search field to be narrowing to zero in on a specific area, the exact opposite is happening now. well, that s right. and that s because the data has come so late. ordinarily that s the first thing that you do while after dispatching the go team to the accident site which, of course, was a mystery. but you got the data. you should have had this data the first day. you get the maintenance records, the data records, anything from the plane, the engine logs and
where l you can do this. we checked with expert and some are convinced this can happen. some are convinced this cannot happen. so i don t know. we ll report. you decide. that s just one of them. then john saying, it s obvious, it did not crash, so it was taken somewhere we would not think to look it is not sound it did not crash. douglas says maintenance records, check them out. probably for a publish. no it s not. the maintenance record are crystal clean, the one problem, clipped another jet on a runway but never any problems of any kind, and the maintenance records are in flawless. one more saying, shep, i don t think there was even a plane. hash tag malaysia airline. how does it go undetected. somebody either turned off the transponders, lea is a pielet for the military and is if they had a fire or something in the cockpit the last thing