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Circumstances like the plane deviating from its flight path. a sudden pitch or roll. these systems dont send back the cockpit voice recordings. >> we have a cultural problem with the airlines and the airline unions for the pilots. they do not want big brother in the cockpit. >> reporter: the faa doesnt require american carriers to outfit their jets with live streaming. and the canadian companies tell us only a few u.s.-based airlines carry them. they wont say which ones. why arent more major air...

>> reporter: predefined by the airline. circumstances like the plane deviating from its flight path. a sudden pitch or roll. these systems dont send back the cockpit voice recordings. >> we have a cultural problem with the airlines and the airline unions for the pilots. they do not want big brother in the cockpit. >> reporter: the faa doesnt require american carriers to outfit their jets with live streaming. and the canadian companies tell us only a few u.s.-based airlines carry them. they wont ...

Live streaming on that plane, we would at least have some answers right now. michael goldfarb says the case is a game changer in live streaming. >> another alternative to the black boxes that exist right now. >> right. a deployable recorder, its a box that would automatically eject from a plane if its in distress and land separately in the water or on the ground. those exist in some military planes. >> military planes. >> right. >> maybe they should do it in commercial airliners as well. theyve ...

Rare on this aircraft. this is the most reliable aircraft in the skies right now. >> jim, you held a high jock at the ntsb. you were former chairman, where would you now take this investigation to try to get some kind of resolution. >> the international aviation organization they need to equip these aircraft. theyve been sitting on that recommendation for five years. if this aircraft had been equipped with a deployable recorder like the f-18 aircraft we have in the united states, like the p3s th...

>> reporter: searchers took two years to search for that flight that went down in the atlantic killing 228 people. experts say theres another possibility as well, a deployable recorder, a box that would automatically eject from a plane when its in distress and land separately on the ground or in the water. those already exist in some military planes. wolf? >> and that air france plane five years ago did transmit some data in realtime, right? >> it certainly did. basic maintenance data which gave...