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Board tanks. and he could cause the nose of an aircraft to go up. those are really serious control issues. >> no kidding? >> that no passengers should have access to in an aircraft. so we have got to do something. how come you can just shimmy that off in the entertainment box if thats whats that? >> i was on one of those jets last night and i kicked it around and felt down there. it was flimsy. here is why it makes sense, because the computer that runs the airplane, is the same one that people t...

Was it is fight of the century? many say it didnt live up to the hype. floyd mayweather beat manny pacquiao. manny pacquiao disagrees. he thought he was the better fighter. the faa is ordering maintenance on all boeing 787 dreamliners. testing found the 787s could lose battery power after 248 days of being continuously powered. they have been plagued by battery problems. it was grounded in 2013 because of that issue. in nepal, people in remote areas are struggling after the devastating earth...

Fuel-efficient. >> exactly. smaller planes let airlines start new routes the 787 has allowed japan airlines to start a flight from boston to tokyo nonstop. the other japanese airlines started a flight from san jose to tokyo. these are flights the a 380 could never do and that the end of the day when business travelers value, flights and frequent service rather than one flight a day they would rather have two with three flight today on smaller planes. >> what about the expense? dallas-fort worth ...

My understanding is they can configure that to carry i dont think theyre doing that but no one seems to be buying it. start with you, why not. >> boeing and airbus have outdone themselves. boeing has built a 787. and smarter planes are more fuel efficient and the benefit of that is airlines can operate more specific routes, they could not serve with larger aircraft but much more fuel efficient way to fly passengers. >> fuel efficient sounds like it should mean lower prices. does that mean if the...

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Is a downbeat way of describing this. how serious a threat it is that someone could use wifito commandeer a jet. some of the most sophisticated in the world, the new dreamliner 787. >> the newer the plane, the better the plane, this report makes it most alarming to those models. what is important about the gao report is that this is the second in a series of reports. they did the first one in january. and in january, they found that the faa had failed to take this into consideration in building ...

Plane crash on twitter. we have our experts here to answer them. lets bring in our panel. cnn aviation correspondent richard quest, safety an live lift david souci and captain and aviation analyst. also in los angeles, criminal defense attorney brian claypool. we begin with you, richard. this question from cynthia gaines writes in can a cockpit be reconfigured for the pilotss toilet thus allowing files remain in the cockpit throughout the flight? this is something that has come up. >> on an a 32...

In a fully computerized setup like what you see in the airbus and also the boeing 787, these are are aircraft that are controlled by computers. so when the pilot puts in any sort of change for the aircraft flight controls, it first goes through the computer that mediates it and then tells the controls what to do. i find it problematic, actually. >> to distill this theres no real manual override on the a320? >> i cannot absolutely confirm that at this point, but i know that it is an electrically ...

Accurately where the aircraft entered the water, it is still a puzzle but not that difficult when you consider it against everything else thats going on. now, remember, the industry doesnt really have to equip every airplane with this technology that is available. and incidentally their technology has been available for quite some time. you go out and buy yourself a brand new 787 or 777 or a 737 even, you probably have all the wiring and all the equipment necessary onboard those airplanes when t...

And built. there have been very very few commercial jetliners that have broken apart at altitude during bad weather. its different for smaller planes but this is obviously a very big plane. and that site that les is talking about, boeing put it out. they took the wings of a 777 and a 787 up to the point where they broke them from the fuselage and im going to use my hands here sorry to talk with my hands, but the wing went like this clear up to here flexing before it broke. so it was quite a sigh...