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Adsb system, acars system. were going to look at all of that, all the different ways a 777 can communicate with the outside world and how jim sciutto demonstrated those can be silenced. later what it takes to locate wreckage at sea. why other searches succeed and why this one could be the most challenging one yet. ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i dont want to think about the alternative. i dont even know how to answer that. i mean, no one kn...

Certain point controllers are just kind of projecting where the plane should be, correct? as it moves from one radar station to another, correct? >> there are huge gaps in the radar coverage around the world. and especially over open water. in the north atlantic just every day theres hundreds of flights that go from new york or boston to europe and back. there is a pretty big chunk of the atlantic ocean that there is no radar coverage. and we use other means to communicate. that flight boeing wh...

A burst of data from the engine, pent up information in the summary of the flight, was sent? >> i have a quick question about that. it all sounds so logical. but the two of you are experts and i am not. all i keep thinking is, richard, if this plane blew up in midair, all of those spectacular data systems, dleelivery mechanisms that guy was talking about, could they still function? or if this plane hit the indian ocean or the straits of malacca would it also deliver those miraculous data systems...

This aircraft. >> there is a thing called acars. the airlines service data system. >> thats correct. >> did i get that right? >> yeah. its a maintenance system that goes to a satellite and then to the ground that provides information about the mechanical health of the aircraft. it was that system that was very helpful in identifying the location of the air france accident. so i understand that information has come to light that may indicate that theres a possibility and this is pure speculation ...

Those are triggered by being jarred loose or by salt water. it is monitored not only by the aircraft doing the searching but also by satellite. so the fact that that aircraft has not been found indicates a bigger problem than just was there a terrorist act. if there was a terrorist act they had to disarm the elts and the electrical system and the acars in that aircraft. that would take a lot of knowledge to do that. >> im sure you want to follow up on. that but if you can quickly follow up. but ...

Down. you could have an engine malfunction. you could even have an engine do what is called an uncontained failure. but that would really have to be very catastrophic to bring the airplane down. the fact that you didnt have any transponder emissions, transmissions, anything from a system that is called acars which transfers to airplane back to the airline, you didnt have any of that such as you did with air france 447 back in 2009. this just -- smells to me like a criminal act. >> gentlemen, tha...

From the plane when the incident happened? now, we know from 447 from air france, the first indication of what happened was because air france said this plane was telegraphing that it was in trouble. and so quite soon were going to want to know about acars messages from what they call the acar system from the 777. >> richard, let me ask you this. as someone just tweeted this to me. does the plane not have wi-fi for passengers? if it had been a slowish descent could anybody have e-mailed their fa...

Time for the pilots to get off a may day message or to at least put out a distress call, to at least do something. so that is a nonstarter from that point of view. ive covered more than my fair share, unfortunately, of these. and what is quite clear is you look at what happened at the incident. was there a may day? did they get a distress signal off? what signals were sent from the aircraft via the acars system to the ground? and in the fullness of time, im trying to remember. i was on malaysia ...

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