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Going to bring you the new information just minutes and our aviation experts will be here to talk about it. and today malaysian shah airlines after days of denial confirming that flight 370 was carrying highly flammable lithium batteries in cargo hold. what could that mean to the the administration. former administration pipeline safety administration also a pilot. he joins us. good evening, sir. >>g, greta. >> well, the ceo of malaysia airlines sort of sat on this one for about four days. he ...

Have fire detection suppression equipment in the cargo holds of wide bodied planes and others. but that fire suppression equipment may not be effective against the lithium batteries. that was one of the outcomes of the boeing 787 investigation, which they discovered in looking at those two planes that caught fire or had a smoke event because of the batteries, they determined they had to redesign the box in which those batteries were housed that the fire suppression system didnt work. and even th...

Of lithium batteries to explode. this is a state-of-the-art fire sues suppression system? >> the interesting thing about lithium they have the capability of reigniting. so even though that happens, as soon as it restabilizes it could reignite. and theres not a second charge that would go off in there necessarily. there is in some compartments. >> mary, lets say that happened. how would the pilots know? wouldnt somebody on the ground know that this was going terribly wrong? >> well, there is a sm...

Preestablished thing that goes on if you know that there is a fire on board? >> yes, there is, your previous guest i heard the tail end of that conversation. thats the way it operates. one pilot focuses on the airplane. the other pilot focuses on the checklist and they may share the communications, it just depends on the work load of the pilot working through the checklist at the time or trying to figure out, you know, plug it in a route to some place they want to go to quickly. and but those du...

Know that this was going terribly wrong? >> well, there is a smoke and fire detection and suppression systems in the cargo holds of these wide-bodied planes. however, we know about this. and what happens and how it reignites and how difficult it is to put out because of the boeing 787 fires in boston and in japan. and the firefighters themselves reported that they kept trying to put it out and it would keep coming back. it was very very stubborn. and so thats why boeing reinvented the box on tho...

Lithium ion batteries in a u.p.s. cargo plane. we also know lithium battery components sparked a series of fires on board several boeing 787s. even with this knowledge, the airline is playing this news down. >> and the questions swirl around what was in the cargo hold of the plane. we are learning more about the phone call made by the pilot. authorities are looking into reports he made a call from his cell phone eight minutes before this flight took off. investigators are trying to find

On and on and on. i do not think, while anything is possible, i dont believe thats what happened in this case at all. >> can i add something about lithium ion. >> sure. we have heard about fires and smoldering involved in lithium eye on batteries with 787s. we have heard about laptops spontaneously come busting. those are batteries hooked into a device. what we are talking about here is stored batteries in a box. not to say it is impossible but when we hear about that. >> its a different scenari...

Going to bring you the new information just minutes and our aviation experts will be here to talk about it. and today malaysian shah airlines after days of denial confirming that flight 370 was carrying highly flammable lithium batteries in cargo hold. what could that mean to the the administration. former administration pipeline safety administration also a pilot. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> hi, good evening, greta. >> well, the ceo of malaysia airlines sort of sat on this one for abou...

Preestablished thing that goes on if you know that there is a fire on board? >> yes, there is, your previous guest i heard the tail end of that conversation. thats the way it operates. one pilot focuses on the airplane. the other pilot focuses on the checklist and they may share the communications, it just depends on the work load of the pilot working through the checklist at the time or trying to figure out, you know, plug it in a route to some place they want to go to quickly. and but those du...

Into that. >> reporter: the future of tracking flights could already be here. this is boeing corporations 787 command center near seattle where technicians track air born 787s in realtime, mapping their location and monitoring maintenance and technical issues throughout the center as they happen. if a plane has a tire pressure problem flying over the atlantic, theyll know. >> in fact, its a little more extensive than that because there are several of us that get the messages to our blackberries ...