learned a great deal out of this situation. we have learned how not to do things and how to do things we have never done before. i think aviation will benefit from this somehow. >> let's get accuracy on the radar. >> we have learned so little in seven weeks. >> i'm don lemon, thank you for watching tonight. see you back tomorrow night. "ac >> good evening, john berman in for anderson, and we begin with breaking news right now. we could get word that the likeliest place to find the flight 370 could be over. they were going back and forth in the targeted area. as of yesterday they searched 90% of that area, so tonight it is either done or very close to it. we're waiting to hear. and we're talking about what the next step could be. we also have an exclusive interview with the prime minister of malaysia, in the

last six weeks for somebody who has been listening for word of her loved one. we are waiting for word on what could be the last search for the bluefin in this phase. what is the latest tonight? >> yeah, and if it goes as it has in recent days, john, we should be hearing about mission 12 in the next hour or two or three. but as you said, the previous 11 missions have yielded absolutely nothing, no sign of mh-370. the mission 12 should be done by now and we should hear about that any moment. you make a good point, though, this was the area that the searchers were expressing confidence about. they thought it was their best shot. this was focused around the largest and longest acoustic sound that they hoped was a ping from the black boxes. we are hearing they are still confident they will find something at some point, somewhere, how long will it

take, they don't know. >> how long are you hearing about the plans for the long-term search? because we really do seem to be at that phase. >> reporter: yeah, with this focused area they really did narrow down what was a really broad search area. and now, one that would appear to be almost complete. they might redo some of those areas, just go near the first ping, which is just north of this area. they could look at that arc where the flight path was suspected to be, 300 miles by 30 miles. there are talks going on, malaysia, the u.s., the australians and others. and they say next week they will have a better idea. it could be a complete reset. the ship, the ocean shield that is out there working with the bluefin. it could take time. one of the assets they're looking at is a vehicle like the

orion, which is a very powerful side scan sonar that can be towed behind a ship. the advantage of that, it sends back realtime data to the mother ship. and of course it can save time and go much deeper than the bluefin. >> michael holmes, thank you so much, news about this phase could come any time now. and what is news to us is deeply personal to anyone with connections to anyone on the flight. they have a hunger for the truth that so far has gone largely unmet. it is not that they're expecting the final word on what happened to the boeing triple 7 more than a month and a half ago. many are demanding far more information from the officials, especially from the malaysian authorities. right now you're looking at chinese families marching on the embassy in beijing. similar confrontations have been taking place in kuala lumpur. tonight, we'll speak to one of

the most passionate critics of the investigation. sarah bajc, whose life partner was on the plane. and tonight, we learned about answers taking them to the very top. he spoke exclusively today with malaysia's prime minister asking him many of the questions the families have been asking. including why after the jump -- jumbo jet left that area, why did they not scramble to find it? >> no planes were sent up on the night to investigate? >> no, because it was simply deemed not to be hostile. >> don't you find that troubling that a civil aircraft can turn back, fly across the country and nobody thinks to go up and have

a look? because one of two things, i understand that the threat level, and i understand -- either the plane is in trouble and needs help, or it is nefarious and you really want to know what somebody is going up there to do. so as prime minister, don't you find that troubling? >> you see, coming back to my earlier statements, they were not sure whether it was mh-370. >> even more reason to go up and have a look. >> they were not sure. but it behaved like a commercial airline. >> behaved like a commercial airline? that is not all he told richard, some of it ended with placating the families, including new word on the preliminary report released to international authorities and will be released to the public next week but has yet to be shown to the families. richard quest joins us now. and richard, i want to start with the point that you really pressed the prime minister on. it really seems to be a glaring hole in the explanation. he said the blip on the radar

screen didn't act like a hostile aircraft. it seems like they're not revealing information. >> i think we know exactly why, john, in some shape or form. it was a young junior radar officer, is my understanding on duty that night. there is no threat level or particularly high threat level at the moment in malaysia. he saw the plane. he recognized it as a civil aircraft and he didn't do anything about it. that is going to be in many ways the big question when we get the final report that the authorities are going to have to answer. everything else, john, is just stuff. names are different, and last words. searching here, searching there. the core issue is why they didn't send up a plane to investigate as they did with the

ethiopian hijacking recently, that seems to be the normal procedure. >> and that was the key question you pressed him on, and the key answer he did not give. another question, richard, is the prime minister confident now? what does he think about the area they're searching? does he think it is the right search area? >> whether he thinks it or not it is all they have got. and that is because of the inmarsat data, the so-called handshake, those six and a half-plus handshakes were in the indian ocean where they picked up the pings. so the blunt question for the prime minister of malaysia, when he heard about the inmarsat data and he heard what was happening did he have confidence in it? >> to be honest, i find it hard to believe to begin with. because how could a plane that was supposed to be heading towards beijing, you know --

they could -- decide that the plane and the -- half way towards antarctica, it is a bizarre scenario. which none of us could have contemplated. so that is why when i met the team, and mind you, these are the main experts in the aviation industry. i asked them again and again and again, are you sure. and their answer to me was, we are assure as we can possibly be. >> and that is, john, really -- sums it all up. because no matter how many critics i have heard who say why are they searching there? what is the reliability of the inmarsat data? should not they produce the numbers and data? i don't know, this data was reviewed by the ntsb, the waib, by boeing, the malaysians and others. there has been plenty of peer

review about it. and as the prime minister went on to tell me it is all they have got. >> uh-huh. we'll ask some of the best minds in the business about that search area in a little bit, richard. first, i want to play something the malaysian prime minister said when you asked him about the victims' families, let's listen to this. >> are you prepared to say that the plane and its passengers are lost? >> at some point in time i would be. but not -- right now, i think i need to take into account the feelings of the next of kin. and some of them have said publicly that they're not willing to accept it until they find hard evidence. >> but richard, this seems to be vastly different language, almost a contradiction to what he said in a press conference almost a month ago. let's listen to that. >> it is therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must

inform you that according to this new data mh-370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> so richard, is this sending the victims kwult families mixed messages at this point? >> no, i don't believe it is in any shape or form for the simple reason he is not saying what malaysia airlines says. and what the airline would perhaps like more people to come to the reality of that the plane crashed into the water and that there are no survivors. he is dancing a much tighter line than that. because out of respect for the families, he doesn't want to go to that final hurdle. he is not a fool. he knows exactly where this is going. but to say -- you know, the

critics can't have it both ways. do they want the prime minister to say and -- until we wait for hard evidence, or do they want him to say that the plane crashed and everybody is dead? that is the dilemma he faces and what he did with me in this interview was walk that line. >> richard, it was a terrific interview. an important interview, thank you so much for bringing it to us. really appreciate it. but as you say there are still critics out there. so let's get reaction now from sarah bajc, whose life partner was en route to beijing, on flight 370, helping the couple relocate to malaysia, thank you for joining us. i know this has been an incredibly difficult time as we see the weeks pass by, the junk that washes up to shore turns out to be nothing. now a new interview with the malaysian prime minister getting sometimes conflict signals how

are you holding up tonight? >> well, i spent most of the morning with my job, basically scraping the floor. i'm just so astounded by this new shift that the prime minister is taking. you know, with all due respect to richard, because i genuinely appreciate the reporting he has done, i think he is being too generous with the prime minister here. this is an elected official who has a legal and moral accountability to protect the interests of the citizens of his country. and you know, the people on his team are only his tools to use, to lead. it is squarely on his shoulders and he has not held that team accountable for doing what they're supposed to do. >> the president did try to address the concerns of the family his in his interview to richard, let's play a little bit of that for you sarah. >> i know this is a very, very excruciatingly painful time for them. i understand that.

and we've done our best. we've done many, many briefings. and we gave them as much information as we could. in terms of information that could be -- that were corroborated. but the most important information that they want and sadly the one that we can't provide is where is the plane. >> to be blunt, sarah, this doesn't seem satisfying to you. >> no, you know, he is reading from a script sheet that some qualified professional pr person has put together for him. actions speak louder than words. the briefings both in malaysia and china have been a joke. you know, they have their officials -- at the beginning they actually had the officials at the meetings who would sleep in the meetings. they would laugh at the questions produced by the families. they would not answer the questions.

it has been a recurring theme. and the patience level of the families has just gone. not only with the fudging of the investigation but also with the really irresponsible and disrespectful treatment of the families. >> sarah there was one point that he made or actually one thing he didn't say. he refused now to say that he believes the plane is lost, where just one month ago he seemed to indicate. you know, he said the words that the flight ended in the indian ocean. what do you make of what seems to be a bit of a contradiction here? >> i make that out to be political maneuvering. i think that maybe they're starting to open their eyes a little bit to the fact that some mistakes have been made. and it is best to reallocate blame to somebody else. and you do that by backing off of your statements. this is not an unprecedented situation. it is only an unprecedented outlook. there have been multiple issues where the transponders have been turned off, multiple issues

where the plane was taken. they ignored that. there have been multiple instances of the families rallying together. you teach economics, we learned the house you lead is in the running to be the all-around champions for academics and art. and i just want to say it is remarkable you have been able to continue leading these kids going through everything you're going through. i want to say to you, our fingers are crossed for you there. congratulations. >> thank you. >> sarah bajc, thank you so much. really appreciate it. a quick reminder, set your dvr so you can watch "ac360" whenever you like. and next, the questions that richard and sarah bajc raised. and also tonight, breaking news in the ferry disaster, the death toll rising, and new

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at this moment, we're waiting to hear that the bluefin-21 has completed this phase of the search for flight 370. as you just heard from our michael holmes in perth, word is expected any minute and we'll bring that to you when it happens. there is a lot to talk about with our panel, back tonight, richard quest, let's also bring in cnn analyst, david souci, author of "why planes crash." also cnn analyst david gallo director of special projects at woods hole oceanographic institute. and former transportation executive mary schiavo, who currently investigates accidents for families. all right, richard, i want to talk about this interview he just did. mary, let me start with you here. because richard pressed the

prime minister on the notion that flight 370 took this turn over the left-hand peninsula, they tracked it on military radar and they did not track it with jets. the prime minister told richard that for some reason, some how it was not hostile. is that a satisfying explanation to you? >> no, it's not. and you can tell that richard had zeroed right in on the weakest point. because how do you know it is not hostile? he said well, it was civilian aircraft. well, then either you knew it was mh-370 or you didn't, and if you didn't know what it was, obviously you have to go find out. i think that richard was reading the tea leaves pretty well, it may have been somebody junior or somebody left their station and the malaysian prime minister was just never going to say that. so i think that richard did a masterful job trying to pin him down. >> and richard, that means if you accept the explanation

given, that means there was a mistake early on. and presumably the malaysian officials have known about this for sometime and you trying to keep it quiet? >> yeah, it is confusing to me, except for the fact the malaysian radar, which if it is an older radar which i suspect it is, just for defense purposes. it doesn't have secondary pings. their goal at this point would have to be it is a threat. and that is exactly why we found ourselves in the situation like we did with 9/11. is just the unfathomable. and them thinking well, it is not defensive and has nothing to do with me. >> just to be clear to say it, out loud the reason it is such a big deal because in this day and

age you do not know if a plane is hostile. it is something we learned all too well on 9/11 in this country. mary, i want to ask you another question. you heard mary bajc saying families are not getting questions answered, simple things, facts that are out there that may have been in that report that has been turned over to international authorities right now. these are fair questions, aren't they? >> very fair questions, and really straightforward questions and i really commend the family for this list of questions. and i know they have many more. they're very down to earth questions and simple questions the investigators should be asking themselves and answering. and i think it is a mistake, they have already prepared a preliminary report. what should have happened is they should have called the families together and reviewed it with them first. they are the ones most important here. and so now they're going to get it with the rest of the world. and so they just keep

compounding the trust level and it is unfortunate. hopefully the questions they have will be in the preliminary reports. but i don't want to get anybody's hopes up. usually the preliminary reports are bare bones, the facts, and the investigation continues. let's hope it is more than that, but sometimes it is all that is. >> and the prime minister announced that the report would be public a week from now. why the one-week wait, we're not really sure about. richard, i want to bring you in directly, because you heard sarah bajc, it is clear the prime minister is trying to your out to the family members of the people on board flight 370. clearly they're not satisfied. >> this is an interesting point. because when you talk to the malaysians or the airline, they're very clear that their duty is to the next of kin.

so you constantly question about why is there just this discrepancy between the next of kin's demands and views and what you're saying. now, a lot of the questions that they have asked, they have received the information. i'm not saying all. but i've had it on an extremely high authority that a lot of the information has been provided. and then they ask for it again or in a slightly different form. and where i think the malaysian government or the airline is falling down is that they are not responding fast enough again to give the information. because this next of kin are entitled to that information. they are the people who are affected most. but i don't think anybody should be in any doubt that at least from the very top of the prime minister, his view is that the change will take place. information, may be the cargo manifest, maps, the preliminary report. maybe, as he said to me, richard we have heard the messages

people are sending. >> they have heard them but they're still going to wait a week before they make this report public. and richard you make clear to me and many others, these reports usually are public. >> i asked him that, i said straight out, why are you doing it now, prime minister? he said he wants the international committee to look at the report. i am not sure why. i said to him is it because there is something embarrassing in the report against malaysia? he said no, i just want the international committee to look at it but it will be made public next week. >> well, we'll see if in a week and not now. david gallo, i want to bring you in on this important point now, the search area off the coast of australia could be coming to a conclusion any minute now. we'll bring you that news when it happens. the first search preliminary area seems it may turn up nothing. so the question a lot of people have is if they did hear these pings why are they not finding

anything on the ocean floor? >> well, it is very possible, john, that they just missed them. that they are outside the search circle that they have been focusing in on. that is a possibility. it is a possibility that there is someplace different, but in that vicinity, the ocean is playing tricks with the sound. it is a different thing. i argued it all along. if they do believe the pings are from the black boxes, how do they leave the area, even if they have to expand the circle two or three times to make the bull's eye bigger. >> may have to expand it two or three times and that could take some time, at least two or three weeks, when they get advanced in that area to keep searching. guys thank you very much. as always you will find much more on this story and others at cnn.com. up next, how the search for steve fosset's plane happened. plus, more news out of south korea, more bodies recovered as the criminal investigation heats

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consumption, the data, i have said all along if you're confident that the pings are from the black boxes, how do you leave the area and even think about someplace else? >> david said tonight, what if that information the authorities relied on to define the search zone, what if it is just wrong? the inmarsat data is certainly controversial, and as randi kaye reports, this is not the first time a search plane has gone off course based on bad information. >> reporter: it is september, 2007, steve fossett takes off from the flying ranch in nevada. heading out he promises to be back for lunch and nobody sees him. >> the best way to describe it, looking for a needle in a hay stack, within ten hours.

>> reporter: the terrain there is rugged. the wilderness between western nevada and eastern california is vast. >> did that plane have the equivalent of a black box? >> it has an elt, a locater system that can be picked up by satellites. >> reporter: radar picks up the plane's crack along the sierra nevada mountains. >> before they could really pursue this evidence they were distracted by another piece of evidence that popped up which was a visual sight out in the desert. that one was very tempting because whenever somebody says they saw the plane, people tend to put a lot of credence in that. >> that visual sight came from a ranch hand in the area, who said the plane flew over him when he stood on his porch just about ten to 15 miles from where the plane took off. he said the plane flew low.

>> it was very distracting, they never looked back at the previous evidence they had. they focused everything on this new piece. >> reporter: the search area suddenly shifts dramatically, from the mountains, about 60 miles northeast to the desert. the search continues for months. still, no sign of steve fossett or his airplane. that is until a hiker finds some of fossett's personal belongings. it is now october 2008, more than a year after he disappeared. >> i came across the card, the id cards and the $100 bills in the dirt and the pine needles and stuff. and i went wow. we put it altogether, it is that fossett guy. >> reporter: turns out these items are found in the original search area, the mountains. the search teams quickly change their focus once again.

>> just about the time we were about to call off the search, the air national search spotted wreckage on the ground. >> reporter: it is fossett's plane, right along the original radar track, the very spot in play before authorities shifted their attention to the desert based on a so-called hot tip from a ranch hand. >> they probably could have found him relatively quickly if they had followed up on the evidence they had very early on in the search. >> reporter: instead of the plane being located in just days the search lasted over a year. and cost millions. randi kaye, cnn, new york. could there be a lesson here? up next, more breaking news, the death toll rises in the south korean ferry disaster. and they're using an unusual looking vehicle to search for passengers. we're live in south korea with the latest on the investigation.

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breaking news in south korea where it is already friday morning. divers searching the sunken ferry believe they have recovered the body of the boy who made the first emergency call for help. this as that ship began to roll on its side before the crew radioed the distress call. officials will now use dna tests to positively identify his remains. 181 people are now confirmed dead, but 121 are still missing. hopes of finding anyone alive or fading. south korea's coast guard has now deployed an underwater robot called the crabster as part of its investigation. it can crawl like a crab along the sea floor along aluminum legs. as we reported over the past week more than 300 high school children were on that ferry.

today, their school reopens. students, as you can see, created a shrine, leaving flowers and hundreds and hundreds of notes. some of them expressed regret not being able to help when their friends were in need. kyung lah is in jindo, south korea, and today you learned there were modifications recently learned to that ferry. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: what we can tell you is that the prosecutor's office tells cnn that it is looking into that retrofit that you're talking about. this boat, this ferry was purchased from japan in 2007 and last year was retrofitted to be able to handle an additional 200 people. they're looking at that. they're looking at whether or not the cargo shifted or not. and they were looking at whether or not a sharp turn may have contributed to what happened here.

>> kyung lah, there is also information that an additional crew member was arrested. there seems to be a large number of arrests here. >> reporter: yeah, we're hearing about it every single day, and last night what we heard our time in korea is that there were four more additional arrests. that brings the total of arrests to 15. 20 crew members survived what happened here to this ferry, only five of them now have not been charged. so this is a dragnet that is widening. it is something that the parents wanted here. they wanted a sense of justice but it is not helping anyone as far as coping with this tremendous loss. they are the victims of south korea's worst ship disaster in decades. but to those waiting on land they are lost children. teachers and parents. billy kim, playfully hula hooping in a dalmation costume grew up in korea with an american name.

the mother says she loved goats, and the unique name, billy, was chosen. some are only known by numbers. listed at the port until their parents name them. number 63, a student with the flower-shaped belly ring and adidas sweat pants, number 68, this one, a boy, skip -- skinny with pimples, connecting them is one high school, they were on an excursion, just before the junior exams for college. park he's sun dreamed of college. lee waited tables to help pay his family's bills. their teachers were not much

older than their students. kim cho wan, teaching her first year at the high school, lost her life. she died on her birthday. there are many stories of the sewol ferry's crew abandoning passengers. but not so well known are the quiet stories of the crew's heroism. 44-year-old hong called his wife as the disaster unfolded. the ship is tilting now, use the money in the bank for the children's school fees. before hanging up he said i need to go rescue more kids. his wife never heard his voice again. a nation's hopes fading. prayers now comforting families of the lost. >> such amazing stories there. kyung, we have discussed the boy who called emergency services before the ship's signal that there was a problem. you have some information about this boy? >> a very brave boy. he is the one who called for

emergency help. korea's version of 911. a full three minutes before the crew itself had sent out a distress call. and john, we did learn that that boy's body has been recovered. his family telling cnn that he indeed is home, they did not release his name. >> we hope that can bring some kind of peace to that family. kyung lah, thank you so much, very nice report. after the bodies are recovered the ship will be salvaged. so up next, a look at recent operations like the one that succeeded in riding the costa concordia. in the nation, it's not always pretty.

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more now on our breaking news out of south korea, the death toll in the ferry disaster rises to 181, 121 others still missing. and until the bodies of all the victims are recovered the ship does remain a grave site. but after the victims are returned to their families the ship will become a salvage operation and the investigators will try to answer the key question what caused that ferry to sink. now salvaging a ship that large will take time. it will be dangerous and expensive. but it has been done before. "ac360's" gary tuchman reports. >> reporter: this is not the first time south korea has had to deal with the disaster on the seas. the south korean navy ship exploded in 2010. 46 sailors were missing initially. the effort began immediately. the effort to raise the ship also began quickly when it was determined that was the only way to recover the bodies of the

dead. 25 bodies were found a month later. the key to recovering the ship was a crane which actually lifted it from a water and placed it on a barge. and as a grim reminder that recovery can be dangerous work, one navy diver was killed and two others were hospitalized due to the work, reportedly exceeding underwater times. in january, 2012, the cruise ship, the costa concordia infamously struck the rocks off the coast of italy. the rocks, ripping through the left side of the vessel flooding part of the ship. 30 people were killed, two still missing, the ship ended up resting in waters, some underwater, some not. at the time, they called it the largest ship removal by weight. >> we feel confident we can do it. we feel confident with other partners we will do it safely and with the least disturbance

to the environment and the least disturbance to the economy. >> the italians and americans put together a salvage plan, released footage and animation of the complicated operation which included attaching heavy cables from poles to keep the ship from sinking even deeper. the work was extremely dangerous. >> anybody doing any work is going to be in a weird position. so you're going to have to have safety harnesses and equipment that can deal with that kind of environment. because nothing is straight. >> it was not until this past september 20 months after the accident that the costa concordia was brought to a vertical position. but months of the salvage operation are still left. ultimately the ship will be towed to a nearby port and torn down. hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent. in just over a decade earlier in february 2001, a u.s. sub, the

pacific, off the coast of oahu initiates an incident. nine people were killed including four high school students. because of the depth and weight of the wreckage there were doubts that it could ever be recovered but it could. the u.s. and holland worked together to find the wreckage. after about five months of recovery efforts to vessel was lifted to the surface and eight of the nine victims' bodies were recovered. one victim remains missing today. after the valuables were taken off the ship it was then towed back out to sea and respectfully dropped 6,000 feet to an ocean resting place where it will remain for eternity. gary tuckman, cnn, los angeles. all right joining us, and navy fleet master diver.

david, i want to start with you. when it comes to trying to recover the bodies of the victims here the divers not only have the challenge of navigating a ship upside down and under water but the visibility is so poor we keep hearing they almost have to operate by feel? >> yes, it is a very difficult situation to work in, anderson. particularly that they have limited time at depth that they can work. so they have got to transit from the surface of the water down and enter the ship. figure out where they are, divers can get very disoriented when they're working on a submerged ship under water. if you can imagine going forward down a hallway and taking a left, normally you would be going to the port side of the vessel, in this case you're going to the starboard. all the floating objects are now floating up to the floor above you, and all the heavy objects

have fallen down to the ceiling above you. as you look for victims you really have to use your hands to identify what is in front of you. so it is a very taxing, physical, and emotionally taxing project. >> and dave davidson, it could be getting harder because up until now they have been searching the open areas on this ship. the big rooms like the cafeteria. now it seems they're moving into the smaller rooms, these individual cabins. what are the complications there? >> well, as david said you know we have limited time in decompression. with the tables and schedules. so if you're going to go into a smaller space you think it would be quicker. but actually you have to go to the space and transit. so you have to transit to each space because it takes time because we have the umbilicals and attending lines. so i think it will be slower for square footage. >> and we're told the salvage move will not begin until they find the victims.

we're already seeing large cranes in the area. now you say salvaging a ship like this is more an art than a science. what do you mean by that? >> it is more of an art than a science. salvage projects like this, you're dealing with a lot of unknowns in the situation. unlike building a house where you have a pile of materials, you have a schedule and a plan to put them together. you're dealing with a lot of unknowns, internal bulk heads and tanks may have imploded on the way down. you don't know if you can rely on the buoyancy of the tanks when you go to put air in them, for instance. good salvage companies typically have a plan a, b, and c, so that when they run into the unknown or more information becomes

available through the project they can then alter and be flexible to adjust with the realities. >> and dave davidson, we just had the piece from gary tuchman, and it is not just as simple as hooking up a crane, is it? >> oh, no, you have to have a lot of different salvage techniques, there is possibly computer modelling. you have to make a plan so you know exactly how you will do the salvage before you do it. and then it is not hooking a crane up. you may remove weight, that is one way you can use salvage pontoons, that gives you 35 tons of lift. you could use the water ballast tanks to help give you buoyancy. you will have to do a lot of inspections in the pre-salvage plan. >> they have a big, difficult job ahead of them. just ahead for us, a chicago

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