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The ocean floor but the missing flight 370 is very hard to take. today, we learned the most likely reason the bluefin 21 never did pick up the black boxes or anything else for that matter from the vanished malaysian airliner in what we thought was the likely most likely place is that it wasnt. it wasnt the right place at all, it never was. the best minds thought it was because of those pings from the planes black box, flight data and black box data recorders, do you remember those? sadly now an ...

Thats 484 square miles and at the rate that the blue fin is going, youre looking at anywhere from 47 to 50 days. >> there are many more days. >> if the planes flight data. they are not the only source of potentially vital information. we have learned that data. crew members -- could be retrieved even now. watch. ted shows us how it could be done.

Tracked in real-time. is it time for that? are these obsolete? >> i feel theres few people in the world after the malaysian air crash who wouldnt say yes. i mean, clearly this is old technology. >> reporter: now, the ntsb is reviewing new technology for airliner to live stream flight data back to the ground as they fly. one challenge the ntsb sees -- too many planes transmitting too much information. >> you only can have so much bandwidth, so much ability to receive data, transmit data, so youre...

>> i feel theres few people in the world after the malaysian air crash who wouldnt say yes. clearli, this is old technology. >> reporter: now, the ntsb is reviewing new technology for airliner to live stream flight data back to the ground as they fly. one challenge the ntsb sees -- too many planes transmitting too much information. >> you only can have so much bandwidth, so much ability to receive data, transmit data, so youre looking for what is the most important information. >> reporter: two ...

And flight data recorders that could unlock the mystery. new momentum for the idea to avoid having to recover black boxes. cnn has learned malaysian authorities recommended to international regulators that commercial aircraft should be tracked in real-time. is it time for that? are these obsolete? >> i feel a few people today in the world after the malaysian air crash who wouldnt say yes. this is old technology. >> reporter: now the ntsb is reviewing new technology for airliners to live stream f...

Show and tell. we have an elt right here. this is different than the one on the 777s, correct? >> we dont know actually whats on the 777. this is one of the strangest things that malaysia airlines has not told the public whats on the plane in is quite common in 2002 when the plane was built. this is an old version. this would send satellite signal up to satellites to other aircraft in the area. and they would be able to triangulate in and find it. the newer versions transmit information includin...

100 facilities are now using the system, which allows for almost continuous -- allows for almost a continuous flow of flight data to and from an airplane. all facilities and all planes will begin using this system no later than the beginning of 2020. joining me to talk about this and more, cnns aviation analyst and former managing director for the ntsb and vice president and group general manager for a teledein systems. welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. thank...

Plane. any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew rests on two black boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains, who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash, the country of origin...

Any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew is in two boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash the country of origin for the airl...

About 5 1/2 hours. much shorter than where they are searching now. >> they changed the search area as they have gotten the flight data. it affected the range. arnold, i wonder if i can go to you, being the expert you are, under water searches. i we have talked earlier in the broadcast about the next stage of the investigation in the search where you go from listening to those pingers to looking in effect where the sonar detector. just describe the challenge of that. using this blue fin technolog...