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Anything the airline industry would be willing to pay for? our athena jones takes a closer look. >> the future of tracking flights could be here. this is boeing corporations 787 command center near seattle, where technicians track airborne 787s in real time, mapping their location an monitoring maintenance and technical issues on screens 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...

Bowing built this in a special way. how good is this aircraft? >> probably one of the best aircraft in the world and that is because i am not familiar with the bowing 787. the newest version. it is the finest plane i have every flown. it is nice when you hand fly it. >> what does that mean? >> just take auto pilot off and fly it like a small airplane. it fells like you are flying a real airplane. it is easy to fly. >> it is safe? >> it is very safe >> what do you think happened here, hank? >> i ...

>> and going back to something that we talked about earlier when we were talking about the scenario of lithium batteries and if it was, it would be in the cargo hold, but this plane is not necessarily powered or helped to be powered by lithium, but lithium batteries to be stored in the cargo hold. >> yes, and one of the viewers has commented that we need to make it absolutely clear that this airplane is not like the boeing 787 which is powered largely with the lithium batteries, but in the conte...

Modern age. they provide the most energy that is available, but with that being said, they have a long and sorted past to get into airplanes. they are extremely fragile. >> and volatile. >> extremely volatile depending on the mix and the circumstance. they can explode when they start to burn. they can burn in the thousands of degrees. recently the boeing 787 which say wonderful airplane largely powered by lithium batteries. sitting on the ground, it burned through the outer hole of the fuselage ...

Former boeing 777 instructor himself, retired airline pilot, currently crowe of consultants. ross, its nice to see you. thank you. >> hello, shepherd. >> i dont know how you make these things easier to find or what it is you can do here. do you have any thoughts right off the top? >> you know, you just touched on a very important thing. you said you were on the airplane and you could talk on your cellphone -- not on the cellphone -- >> wi-fi. i could communicate over the internet. >> believe it ...

Evening, hank. >> good evening, greta. how are you tonight? >> very well. you like this plane. >> i love this airplane for a lot of reasons. >> why? >> well, its one of the nicest airplanes to fly because of the roots that the company i work for flew it. its a very easy airplane to fly. it incorporates all the newest things that boeing had at the time im not familiar with the boeing 787 which has come into use since then but the 777 was one the nicest airplanes, actually the nicest airplane i ha...

Currently in production, they are taking a look at that. they say they expect to fix that issue in one to two weeks. it could cost some delivery delays. boeing is also saying its confident the problem does not involve 787s currently in service. back to our top story. tensions escalating in ukraine with no signs that russias willing to back down. there are an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 troops in the crimea region. the armed pro-russian forces refusing to let a foreign military mission enter the...

Atlanta. as far north as hickory, north carolina. no reports of injuries or major damage. keep it right here on the fox news channel. im jamie colby sending you back to neil cavuto on business. >> all right. five years after going for broke, we are still broken. for the one is fixing it. congress give yourself another blank check this week, nearly five years after president obama signed the $787 stimulus bill. we got a trillion dollar food bill that became law this week. we capped with with a bi...

Generations. its not sustainable. >> dave, thank you very much, my friend. >> thank you. >> talk about impeccable timing. five years ago, almost to today, all that spending for what amounted to nothing is really just got going five years ago. >> the american recovery and reinvestment act i will sign it the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history. >> after the rush to reality, the rush to get a whoppingping hundred billionstimulus bill done and sign into law. >> get this done, and ...

Its a sweet trip to a candy shop where bon bons play on the sunny beach at peppermint bay ♪ ♪ lemonade stands >> so sweet. >> i used to sing that song. >> mike actually was the guy -- >> stop it. >> no. he actually choreographed this scene. it was sort of midway through his career at the time. >> all right. >> so cute. coming up in the morning papers, a new report shows more pilots are getting mixed up in the air overheading to the wrong airport. >> you see this "post" story right here? >>...