given the life and death responsibility that the pilots have and the fact that there have been pilots that have committed suicide by flying the plane into the water or the ground. well, they have, woulf. and you can t get away from the reality of fact. years ago there was an american airlines flight that took off out of chicago and an engine came off the wing and that airplane went right into the ground. they had a camera on that airplane and people were able to see inside the airplane exactly what was happening to them. there is a downside but the upside would be to help investigations. there s a huge upside in a situation like this. and if you re a pilot, i know the pilots don t like to have the notion of having someone recording everything they are doing or watching what they are doing, but you know what, it s a huge responsibility to have. you could create protections for them and their privacy. we ve got to go in that
wondering if everything about what that facility may know is being shared. that s an intriguing thought. barbara, thank you. let s bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. you have new information about chinese involvement in this search. well, this is a sign of how seriously this international coalition is taking the search area that barbara talked about. it s about down here. china has already sent five ships down here in the previous days. we learned today that they are adding another four. that is nine chinese ships. of course, big portion of the search because the bulk of the passengers on the plane were chinese. but this is an unprecedented overseas deployment of chinese forces. the biggest one we ve seen before this was participation here in the anti-piracy efforts that were international off the coast of somalia. nine ships there now. what s interesting as well, barbara referred to this a bit, you have an incredible mix now in very close quarters of s
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it s a lot more challenging. and it s 1500 miles off the coast of australia, perth, australia. th it could take four hours just to get to this area and then you can spend a couple of hours and then you ve got to get back depending on the amount of fuel that you have. it s a real challenge for those who are looking. there s no ground base that they can work from that isn t a real reach. so this is going to be a challenge. but these guys can do it. let me bring fran in for a second. because fran, a lot of people are worried that the malaysians aren t doing everything that they can, that the indonesians are not letting u.s. planes fly through their air space, you really need full cooperation in an international search and rescue operation like this. look, wolf, the best news that we have is that the australians, frankly, by pox i
it spans on everything. terror investigations and in light of a u.s. investment in the asia region, we talked about the rebalancing and balancing of resources to asia with china in mind, of course. and this sets up not a confrontation but interaction. you have nine u.s. navy ships down there, all on the same team, in effect, but warily by each other and certainly watching each other s capabilities. it s a motley crue of nations involved in the search. let s say this is wreckage from the airliner and they confirm that over the next few hours now that the sun is coming up over the indian ocean and we get an announcement like that. presumably they would nen then able to focus in on this, the flight data recorder, the voice recorder but that could take a while to find it and there s a time there s a clock ticking