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After that flight 302 tragically went down killing all 157 people aboard. the flight was only minutes into its flight to nairobi. french authorities are getting their first look at the data box. it appears to be damaged. making it difficult to retrieve all the data. repsives for the airlines are a investigation. >> bill: whats the latest how it is impacting flights here at home? >> its still impacting flights for sure. the short answer is that delays are coming from concerns across the country. ...

One i think will be resolved fairly quickly, because they have found the data box, and theres no reason why they shouldnt find the voice recorder. once we have typically the voice recorder, we know the flight profile, then the only question remains is what system may have failed or what would have incapacitated those pilots. theres a number of theories floating around but until we get our hands on the facts, we wont really know. >> captain rollins, stay with me. steve wallace, thanks for your ti...

Discovery. no surprise with reports because they believed it had gone down in the sea. theyre going to be for the black box and im sure the data box to find out exactly what happened with the aircraft. what do you think well discover when they final the black box? >> well, if they have not been damaged at all and theyre able to recover them, what they will discover are the parameters of flight before the accident. that would be the movement of the controls, the power quadrant, the steering mecha...

B.e.a. of france which extracted the data on air france 447. it will be complicated and difficult. >> its a british -- excuse me, its a u.s.-made plane. its a boeing 777, but it was owned by malaysia airlines. so its a little complicated. what i hear you saying, though, richard, under no circumstances given their lack of experience in dealing with this sophisticated black box like this should malaysia get first crack at it. >> malaysia wouldnt want to, i wouldnt imagine. this isnt something that...

Is doing if we have the flight data recorder we will know how fast it went, how high it went, we will know all about the plane. we will have everything we need to know what the plane did. the trouble is the motivation for why it did whatever it did is contained in the voice recorder and the voice recorder is only good for two hours. this flight went many hours past that. >> so it records over? it loops. >> its a loop tape, it works the same way. the event when it happened, when he turned around,...

As part of their core playbook. theyre obsess ld with aviation as one of the threat factors. it does raise the issue. no matter what happens here, no matter what we find, this is a teachable moment where weve identified vulnerability that needs to be addressed. if youre flying aircraft over a certain way, over with a certain number of passenger, should bit the case you cannot manually disable the transponders. safety issues have to be addressed but its an important counterterrorism issue that ha...

Questions that couldnt be resolved because the executives would not cooperate. there ongoing investigations here today was a moment where the two executives are put through a humiliating process. they dont want to cooperate and they gave them quite a lot to think about. >> kelly odonnell live with us. thanks a lot. new details from the ntsb on the deadly racing aircraft crash. in nevada, that tops our look around the nation. investigators say they are looking at evidence that a piece fell off an...

Standpoint, not simply lawyers pushing paper. jon: a lot of our viewers might not know that prior to coming to congress in the year 2000, you had a background in automotive electronics, you were the chairman of the consumer electronics association, the company that you founded manufactured automotive electronic components and security components. is there a feeling here that some of these electronic throttles and so forth were simply not up to the task that they were supposed to do? >> well, its...