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Are spending their time getting there and getting home. reporter: and that comes with a hefty price tag. with some estimates suggesting a cost of $21 million a month. most of the money coming from military training budgets. some from humanitarian organizations. and now from u.s. navy operations. for example, a navy p-8 aircraft costs about $4,200 an hour to fly. the pentagon originally designated $4 million for the search. but has already spent $7.1 million on planes and ships and equipment. how does flight 370 compare to other aviation disasters? the two-year search for air france plane cost roughly $50 million. the twa 800 investigation and recovery cost about $40 million. in 1996, one of the longest investigations the ntsb ever conducted, swiss air 111 which went down off the coast of nova ....
Unprecedented says a former lead investigator for the naushl transportation safety board. during the history of aviation, we have never had a challenge that even comes close to this. reporter: more than two dozen countries, seven contributing the most and australia taking the lead. 80 ships and 61 aircraft all part of the effort to locate the plane. the greatest challenge, the remote distances of the search. a tremendous percentage of the resources whether it is aircraft, ships or personnel are spending their time getting there and getting home. reporter: that comes with a hefty price tag. with some estimates suggesting a cost of $21 million a month. most of the money coming from military training budgets. some from humanitarian organizations and now from u.s. navy operations. for example, a navy p-8 aircraft costs $4200 an hour to fly. the pentagon originally designated $4 million srt search ....
Beiji beijing s foreign minister says they ve used 18 naval vessels, 8 helicopters, three planes, 10 satellites, some estimates in chinese media put that country s price tag, by itself, as high as $25 million thus far. as far as the other assets, including those of the united states, there s another hefty price tag with some estimates suggesting the cost of about $21 million a month. most of that money coming from military training budgets, some also from humanitarian organizations and from u.s. navy operations. for example, u.s. navy p-4 aircraft costs about, oh, $4300, $4400 an hour to fly. the pentagon originally earmarked something like $3 million for this search. but they say they ve already spent about $7 million. ....
The resources, whether it s aircraft or ships or personnel, are spending their time getting there and getting home. reporter: and that comes with a hefty price tag with some estimates of $21 million a month. most of it coming from military budgets and some humanitarian and a p-8 aircraft costs about $4200 an hour to fly. the pentagon originally designated $4 million for the search but has already spent 7.1 million on planes, ships, and underwater surveillance equipment. how does flight 370 compare to other aviation disasters? the two-iyear search for plight air france 447 and in 1996, one of the longest investigations the ntsb ever conducted. ....