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A remarkable safety record despite high-profile disasters. many believe on-board pilots remain the most reliable way to handle problems and retrofitting planes coulds cost billions. second passenger may not be ready. rob guyer is with "flying" magazine. >> i start by asking myself that question how would i field getting to into an airliner? i wouldnt do it. >> one of the reasons is theres still questions about reliability in these systems, and there are unanswered questions. for example, if you ...

Dollars. sec, passengers may not be ready. robert goyer, with "flying" magazine. >> i asked myself that question how do you feel getting in the airliner with no airline pilots up front? i wouldnt do it. >> there are many unanswered questions on reliability and what happens if the plane break free from the electronic tether and what if terrorists take over a ground station and in that form control an airplane? one possible solution is to have multiple stations involved at any given time so it can...

The most reliable and other planes could cost millions of dollars and passengers may not be ready. robert is with flying magazine. >> i start by asking myself how would i feel getting into an airline, and i would not do it. >> there are many unanswered questions about reliability and what happens if this plane were to break free and what are terrorists take over a ground station and in that form take control after an airplane. you have to have multiple stations available at one time. even then w...

Questions about reliability in these systems and there are unanswered questions. for example, if you want to make this plane safe by having a ground station control it so a terrorist cant take over up here what if a terrorist takes over down here? now the plane is in their control and they dont even have to be on board. one possible solution is you have more than one ground station. they have to work in tandem. that sort of defeats that problem but it doesnt answer another question. what if you ...

Data capability of the data stream from that airplane was also turned off. here without those thing, like ken christianson just said the transponder was working, they know where this airplane was right up until the time it was lost. its a confined space in shallower water. the recorders have pingers with at least 30 day batteries and now the world is shifting to 90-day duration batteries. i suspect they will find this very quickly. >> tom fuentes, the other big difference between the malaysia ai...

Data stream in the form of a digital flight data recorder. we have nothing to visually see what is going on in the cockpit. for example in the course of an accident sequence, a pilots hands may hover over certain instruments or radio devices, on the yolk, how he is gripping it. none of that is documented unless you have a video. on the security side, to understand what is going on in the cockpit in the midst -- i will give you an example. the regent jetblue situation about two years ago, the cap...

An element of deterrence because in many crashes, com-air, you can rattle off dozens the pilots were busy engaging in complaints about their airline rather than watching speed deteriorate and if they were constantly monitored they wouldnt have done it. >> i disagree. >> arthur, any legal issues pro or con? >> there are always legal issues. lets talk about practical issues here. first of all, nobody wants big brother looking at them all the time. that aside. lets look at two situations. an accide...

Maybe someone did get into the cockpit. but something happened later that made, you know, the -- knocking out the crew completely and the airplane was on its own for the rest of the time. >> yeah. and we may never know. and thats why you say going forward in this article you wrote yesterday, we need to how. explain the changes youre encouraging. >> well, certainly, i think its important that we have transponders, be they emergency transponders or whatever, that are not able to be turned off from...

Again? >> we have enough technology in our cockpit to communicate to the -- all air photographic communication is still voice, they dont do text, they dont do data communication, number one. those to-called black boxes could be uploaded to a data station. it all has to do with cost. but look at the cost to malaysia airlines in terms of public relations and prestige and look at what will be billions of dollars spent on this recovery. going forward, it has to be an absolutely modern -- also to pro...

If malaysian flight 370 was hijacked or if a member of the crew purposely did something to alter the path, could that have saved the plane? >> if they determined it was a problem and they tried to get in touch with the pilot and the co-pilot and they couldnt, then if that system were in place, it seems as though the ground controller could then have handed this aircraft. >> right now auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off only at the discretion of the pilots in the air. and auto pil...