correct? the answer to that is no. i think you have to predicate your reaction and what you re using your resources for on something. that s as good a starting point as there is at this stage. so as you watch the search for this debris take place, they can t find anything. at first, australian officials were hopeful. one came out and said, it cobul be a kocargo container. we are less hopeful than a day ago. given the length of the one piece, 80 feet or whatever it is, makes it pretty unlikely it is the aircraft. so, in your mind, your sitting back and watching all of this, 14 days have gone by. what missing piece of information do we need to really focus this investigation? well, i think at the stage
that we are at now, if we want to find the aircraft, we re going to have to find some wreckage on the surface to give us an idea of at least a general idea of where it is. it is enormously difficult, even with air france, where we knew what track they were on coming across the atlantic. it still took two weeks to find out where it was. other investigators have said that it would be helpful if we had more information about the conversation between air traffic controllers and these pilots, not only from this flight but from past flights. but if they had anything pertinent, wouldn t that have come out by now. i would certainly think so. i mean, if the other end is the controllers and i can t imagine that if the controllers thought that there was any reason to
. we have information on the jet component of the search. barbara at the pentagon, how much is this costing? the pentagon calculated it so far on the search since the plane went down, the u.s. military spent $2.5 million and they budgeted $4 million for it. they think that will carry them through early april in case it laughs that long. this is always a very tough issue. forces are training all the time. it s hard to calculate in terms of what they wouldn t already be doing. -it is a sensitive issue because
have some answers about that plane. cnn s laurie segall, has more for you. hey, carol, right now, the plane sinks to the bottom of the ocean. the flight data recorder goes with it. we spoke with one company that says, that doesn t have to be the case and to say we could have had a lot more answers about the missing jet. when malaysian flight 370 disappears, the story of what went wrong vanished with it. the answers might be stuck in the flight data recorder, the so-called black box but what if we had those answers all along. we would know where the aircraft has gone and where it is and we would have information on what happened in the meantime. canadian company flight makes live streaming data recorders that send information in real time. it monitors a plane s exact location, engine conditions and more. the system transmits every five to ten minutes on a normal flight. if something goes wrong, like
and they re done searching from the air for the day. cnn s andrew stevens is in perth, australia, the hub of the crew. andrew, the weather was good today. we were hoping for something. reporter: that s right, carol. the weather was better than good, it was excellent. visibility really, really good out over that search zone, but the five aircraft who came out there all came back empty handed. not a sighting of anything resembling a piece of debris which fits what we know about those two objects lying in the water somewhere in that zone. a very disappointing day. the pilots themselves expressing disappointment. also saying they re ready to get out there and do it all again tomorrow. now what we have been hearing today to add to that disappointment is the australian prime minister, carol, seems to be dialing back a little bit. 24 hours ago, a little bit longer than that, he said there was credible new information about these objects. today he was saying admitting they could be a shipp