unusual? there s a lot of gaps in our knowledge that would help us. we know the ntsb is involved, steve. do you think ntsb investigators have seen those things? well, miles is right, the transparency of this investigation and the release of information has been terribly slow. this investigation was i mean, initially in the u.s. you d have an organizational meeting on day one and parties and it would all be organized. this investigation has, in my view, been very disorganized. it s getting better. it has broken all records for speculation and for showing the agony of families. let me just add one last point here that might be kind of interest is that we re right here at the vernal equinox. the days are exactly the same length in the northern and southern hemisphere. most of them are 12 times zones away. when it s daylight there when it s dark here it s daylight there advice vaers rule of thumb
days into this that investigators know some of that information. i mean and just aren t sharing it or really haven t found anything pertinent. well, i can tell you in the fbi s case doing the search now, you know, the first place they re going to report back to is the malaysians. they re helping the malaysians in their investigation. now at some point they ll brief other he entities of the u.s. government and it will quickly leak out. that s how it happens all the time. for right now the discipline of the investigation is such that what they find will be reported back to the investigators in kuala lumpur and, you know, go from there, but that will come out. you will know these things with the exception of in terms of the flight simulator especially, if he re-saved other files, that will cover over or corrupt or delete the files that were previously deleted. when you delete a file, you don t actually delete it, you just put it aside so that it can
the data is sent back to the malaysians and the general feeling is that they needed more certainty about that data on the pings. so the data is sent back for more analysis and more confirmation before being sent back to the malaysians. all that took about two or three days for the information to go backwards and forwards before the malaysian prime minister was then able to come out as you will remember at the beginning of the week and say, there are these two arcs. one is the northern corridor. one is the southern corridor. so it took a couple of days. in all this time, that debris is moving. it is moving. here is the point, carol. they are dammed if they do and dammed if they don t. if they had moved assets and resources on the possibility of this data and three days later, everybody comes back and says, actually, we don t believe that data, the endegree trit to be that strong, you and i would be
that s one way to put it, michelle kosinski. many thanks to you. new in the thnext hour of newsroom, the answers of what happened to flight 370, could be somewhere in the flight data recorder, the so-called black box. what if we had those answers all ang lo. new technology that sends real time information about everything from the plane s location to how the engines are running. how does it work and how could it help if something does go wrong? second hour of newsroom after a break.
anquished families aren t the only ones waiting. insurers are also waiting. some families have received $20,000 in insurance to help them pay for hotels and go to where their loved ones may be missing. insurers could be on the hook for more. the airline industry spends billions of dollars an planes, fuel, maintenance and insurance. a 777 like the malaysia airlines jet that disappeared likely carries a $2 billion policy. that insures the plane itself. it also includes liability for passengers in case something happens. 239 people aboard a giant aircraft that disappears into the night. government officials still piecing together information.