[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn Anchor:] Is it a technical problem if you have more than one or two working at the same time?
[Peter Goelz, Cnn Aviation Analyst:] They need to keep them separate and out of each other's ways. If you've got two, it's not like you're listening for the ping. You just need to be able to manage the search under water. It will make it go twice as fast. But I'm not disappointed that they haven't found anything in four dives. I think this is going to take some weeks. If they're in the right spot, they'll find it.
[Blitzer:] They're looking for a relatively small black box
[Goelz:] That's right.
[Blitzer:] in a huge, huge area, but what they assume is that if that black box is there, Tom, they assume there's other wreckage not that far away, right?
[Tom Fuentes, Cnn Law Enforcement Analyst:] Exactly.
[Blitzer:] They haven't seen any wreckage in the first four or five dives.
[Fuentes:] It is a short time, so we'll just have to let this go forward. But if they need more equipment, it will take a while too get it. They can't just dial it up and send it out there and put it in the water. There's a lot of logistical support that goes with it, preprogramming. Everything involved with trying to coordinate multiple underwater vehicles is going to be difficult.
[Blitzer:] Sure. Australia's top transport minister, Peter Martin Dolan, he raised the possibility of expanding the search, saying that the Inmarsat satellite picked up a handshake along that long arc. Is it premature to start expanding or simply focus in where the pings were coming from?
[Goelz:] No, I think you've got a plan for all options. They've got the plan that this may not turn out. This was based on some assumptions. The assumptions might have been flawed. If you're going to search the length, you have to do it with a towed array. You have to do it with a new vehicle. And you better start lining that up now.
[Blitzer:] I assume they've searched a much wider area on the surface with the planes and the ships, right?
[Fuentes:] And that's proven negative, so they found nothing from doing that. Again, with looking at a wider area of search, they're assuming that it's in this area, not just on the pings, but also the fact of how much fuel they think that plane consumed based on their guess at altitude, their guess at air speed, you know, so really they're going by the pings in the water and that's the best way now to look.
[Blitzer:] Because, Peter, earlier in the week, we heard Malaysian officials, Australian officials, including top leaders there, suggesting they're going to wrap up by this weekend presumably the aerial search. You don't think necessarily that's a good idea?
[Goelz:] Well, I think you've got to keep searching until you find something. But they've got a lot resources developed on the air side that hasn't panned out. I don't think it's going to pan out. So it's probably time to phase that back.
[Blitzer:] You agree?
[Fuentes:] I agree.
[Blitzer:] Let's talk about these questions the families have now submitted to Malaysian authorities. They want answers. 26 questions. Among them, can we listen to the conversation between the pilots and the controllers? They've released a transcript. They want to hear the audio. What's in the flight's log book? Can we review the plane's maintenance log? Are these realistic? Should they be made available, the answers, to the family members?
[Goelz:] Some are, some aren't. In terms of looking at the maintenance log, that's going to become public at some point. I'm not sure what they would see in the maintenance log. But listening to the tower tape, to the communications, I see nothing wrong with that.
[Blitzer:] There was an ongoing criminal investigation. Tom, you're a former FBI assistant director. Any of cress questions, if they give the answers to the families, could that undermine the investigation?
[Fuentes:] We just don't know. It's hard to say on the outside whether it would or wouldn't, based on what they know they haven't released. I think the feeling is they want to keep the families informed but it's not a participatory event for them to be involved in the investigation.
[Blitzer:] Tom Fuentes, Peter Goelz, thanks very much. Today, Mt. Everest proved to be one of the most dangerous places on earth. We'll tell you what happened when a massive avalanche hit, hitting Nigeria. It's dangerous just to be a girl who wants an education. Islamic militants kidnap more than 100 school girls. We'll tell you what the government did to make the situation even more painful for the parents.