paula hancocks, cnn. >>> rob mccallum in seattle. families in anguish waiting for news from this search. one has to wondered should this has been handled differently. i'm not going to apologize for malaysian government but seems if they don't have information, don't know where it is, what can they be providing to the families they are not saying to reporters. >> can't give information they don't have. from a captain's perspective, a plane for of disgruntled passengers. if you don't have anything new, it's important to say you don't have anything new. if there's no information, you can't make things up, you have to relay the situation as it stands. >> rob, clearly, i think everyone can understand, emphasize how painful it is for loved ones of anyone on board this flight. we heard from an interview earlier last week, one of the loved ones who said she stopped watching the news. it's just too tormenting. you can't blame them, can you? >> it's a very difficult time. absence of tangible proof makes it worse. in the case of air france, eve

joining me is aviation analyst miles o'brien, and cnn aviation analyst rob mccallum as well. and let me start with you, rob. are there search areas that are easier to find? >> well, there are things that are easier to see like notsom, and things that are buoyant and collect together, but the real hit s a hits are the things like a tail or a wing tip, and in the case of flight 447, it was the wing tip that was easier to spot. >> and you saw the objects there the crews pulled out of the water there, and not too much speculation, but does it look too much like an aircraft there? >> well shgs s, it is hard to t. to me, we were initially talking before the break, that it was currency to me, but it could very well be one of the seatback, you know, exit manuals. it is possible. >> that or a magazine, page from a magazine or anything. >> yes, and it which still could be a part of the airplane. >> really? >> well, a magazine may be, you know, in-flight magazine may be attributed to that particular airlines. >> and miles, you know, new search area, calmer waters and easier to reach, and

rob mccallum helped lead the ocean search for air france flight. thanks for being with me.>> good morning. >> how many countries actually have such equipment? >> not a lot. there is just a handful of units in the world that would be able to conduct a long and deep water search. there are more countres that have the heavy equipment to get the pingers, the find me, find me signal. the range to those pingers is very, very short. searching for them is like looking in a needle in the haystack, literally. they are designed to locate the black box within the wreckage. the key is knowing where the wreckage is. >> deep detection equipment, can you describe it? what is it? >> it is essentially using sonar devices to use acoustic signals to gather data from the sea floor and look for irregularityiliti irregularityilities in the data. sometimes we are looking for ships, aircrafts, submarines, whatever it might be. in lay terms, it is like using sound together, photographs of the sea floor and whatever is lying on the floor. >> deep detection equipment managed to find air flight 447 off

rob mccallum, a 30-year veteran of ocean exploration, specialty is deep watt der searches and seth caplan is managing partner of "airline weekly," an industry trade publication. mary, i am going to start with you. what should they be looking for and where should they be looking? >> they need to look at the airline, the pilots, to look for motives and clues and where they might have been ed hadded and what they might have been doing and even if they have the right suspects in mind. then, those clues would probably help them to narrow in the search areas. because, without motive and some kind of indication of what they were really planning, it is difficult as everybody is realizing, to search the earth. i that i will help. >> the malaysians appears, they are getting a lot of criticism, to be less than forthcoming about this investigation. have they hampered their own investigation? >> it is difficult to say what they have done up until now. i was personally surprised they waited to look at the pilot's home and search the pilot's home and get his flight simulator. we haven't heard much about

. >> ocean search specialist, rob mccallum, thank you for helping us. once you get to the depths of these oceans and bodies of waters, people are lost to kind of sort this out. >> thank you, sir. >>> the fate of hundreds of passengers on board the missing malaysia airliner of course that remains a mystery. >> prayers and well wishes are pouring in to help the families as we learn more about some of the men and women on that flight is being investigated. >>> coming up, we have an intimate look at it. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. starts with freshly-made pasta, and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "ro

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