Engineering Compartment News Today

Went on the air is can the black boxes be turned off? >> les? >> no. the only -- well, let me recant that. yes, they can throw a circuit breaker. they can be turned off. but it takes -- you have to climb into the electronic and engineering compartment. and its a real process to get down there to do it. >> i just want to jump in on this question. i want to advance that question. excellent question about can the black boxes be removed. can they be or should they be deployable in the event of an ac...

Ended up in this area? is that feasible? >> of course he could have disabled various systems. but to completely shut off the acars, he would have had to go back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment thats eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking ...

Back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment thats eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking to pilots all the time about this. im talking to random people in the street about this. everyones obsessed with it for one reason, the mystery remains a my...

Company. the objects are scattered in this massive area. this is a 154 square mile area, about 1600 miles off australia, and it is 2:15 local time in perth. in a couple hours when daybreak happens, search planes will head out again for a closer look and the potential debris field may tell us approximately where flight 370 ended. but still, not why. an aviation specialist says mechanical problem makes the most sense to him. given what we know, and it is not a lot, but were learning a little more,...

Engineering compartment, the guts of the airplane. goes back to the days of the 707, this particular compartm t compartment, one there and the tail of the airport not accessible in flight. its an operation to get to it. it really takes a lot of knowledge, not only to access it, let alone to know whats down there. >> as the 777 captain, could you access it yourself? >> yes. >> you could do it. so presumably this captain could as well. >> he could, but were trained to fly airplanes and to go from ...