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The water. you have some rcommunication between that and the ship. you can command it to start a certain search pattern. >> your seeing things in real-time from the vehicle or is that just data you get once it comes back up? >> so once you recover the vehicle you go through this four hour process where you replace the battery, you reprogram it and download the data you collected on the previous mission. you take two to four hours to go through that data to see what the vehicle observed. so there...

Goes in the water. you have rudimentary communication between the vehicle and the ship, giving the position where the vehicle is at you can command it to abort or start a certain pattern that you have programmed. >> are you seeing things? realtime from the vehicle or just data you get once it comes back up? >> so once you recover the vehicle you go through a four-hour process where you replace the batteries and download the data you collected. and you take two to four hours to go through the dat...

The position and altitude of the aircraft is continuously reported, and it cannot be, that capability cannot be disabled. >> and that is, im glad you brought up that topic, because it is another question that i am getting frequently over twitter which is what can airlines do to prevent a giant airliner from disappearing under such mysterious circumstances. keep the data stream flowing and what measures could they take to keep it from happening down the line. this is a question that came from ziy...

And cnn money correspondent, and she said that it is 1.1% cost of the plane, and so is cost the issue? >> well, it is not the total issue, but it is not an insignificant. an example. it is not the cost of the $100,000, and why do i know that? because they are putting the satellite dishes on the roofs of planes for wi-fi and internet connectivity, and they cost $1 million to install on each aircraft, and if you are a major u.s. carrier, and you have 700 or 800 planes, that is a sizable cost. and ...

Probably avoid making open statements to parliament so for those reasons and those reasons alone, we believe this may be a crucial moment in the search for the malaysian airlines boeing 777. so all we have now is that a news kons fren scheduled to begin i want to bring in catherine herridge our correspondentent and producer for that matter in washington. catherine, do you have anything we dont some >> what i wanted to add to it, shepherd is that we reported faa is taking second intense reviews f...

And expert and retired pilot, welcome back. lets get right to it. the first question i will give to you, the question is, why dont we put floatation devices on all of the black boxes. it makes sense. good question. >> it is a really good question. i think that the question really is asking why we have the technology on these black boxes. and the answer is they were expensive to develop the technology and they are installed in thousands of airplanes. any time you mandate new equipment, there is a...

Signals intelligence. that would be the satellite data link information that bob was just asking about and then the civilian and military radar. what i have heard consistently is that the u.s. intelligence community has other ways or other avenues to try and get sort of a fix from the sky on what the likely trajectory of that aircraft was. and that would be something going into sources and methods that theyre not discussing. the bottom line for people in the intelligence community is whatever th...

Path as the search enters it 111 11th day. >> there are alarming terror plots. some are absurd. i heard on cnn an alien obduction should have caused this, but one that is popular is the possibility of an onboard electrical fire that would take out the transponder and the acar system and have the pilots in a rush make a quick turn. do you have information on that, whether its a credible possibility? >> the issue i have heard consistently from my contacts i have been talking to throughout the day ...

And if one of those shorts and starts an electrical fire its almost impossible to get to it and put it out, and those can affect systems and that can be a very dangerous situation. jenna: is there no way for the pilot to let anyone know that something catastrophic is happening? >> if it takes out his system, and this is the real question because it seems to have taken out multiple backup systems. if the pilots radios dont work, then you have the, then you have the transponder. you can actually s...

Communications. thanks very much. let me start with you, math. its pretty significant. if this system -- the whole management system was readjusted before -- at some point to go west as opposed to continuing to go towards beijing. if that was done, how do you know it was -- how do you get that snfgs? how did the investigatings art chully learn that somebody reprogrammed that system inside the cockpit? >> well, ofl, im not really sure to be honest with you. the only way you really could know that...