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What do you do as an investigator when you dont have that? where do you start on something like that? >> that investigation was handled by the french, and what we had in that particular event was the airbus has a similar system to every other modern airplane and that is it can provide downloaded data bursts, given a health check of the airplane. so there was some limited data, some data that was being provided by the airplane in those data bursts that investigators had to analyze early on in the...

Different data bursts, but now youre talking hundreds of thousands of airplanes down bursting all of this information. you got to capture it, it takes a lot of bandwidth and theres just not enough satellite, you know, space up there and bandwidth to capture the amount of data were looking at. >> this has been discussed for many years, so its an option, and certainly so, there is a give and take here, but now youve got nine countries who are participating in the search for this 777 massive plane,...

Catastrophic event and trying to piece it together there, having technology that is in real time available, and it says its been discussed for many years but never implemented because of the cost. the concept of automatically transmitting data would be using satellite links to use critical safety information from an airliner to the ground during extreme emergencies or just before a plane goes down. why is the cost an issue here when we know that these incidents can happen and this information is...