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Send out the ping -- and theres only a few days left for that ping to be going out -- that ping may not even be in existence any more, the batteries may not have been stored properly. tell our viewers what youre hearing about this because they really need to retrieve the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder. >> yes, theyre absolutely stuffed without them, frankly, in terms of trying to work out properly what happened. so they do need them. but if these batteries, as has been alleged by one...

Cabin to streaming flight data in real time, upgrades would cost millions of and have to be implemented without disrupting a system that moves millions a day. who would pay for the upgrades? in the u.s., tax ppayers and ultimately passengers. >> do you think the world will change how we fly? >> we learned we need to keep track of airplanes and need to know where they are at all times, more today than any other time in the past. >> and another thing that obviously is very important is how airplan...

Why such things are not on board every jetliner, i dont know. >> reporter: in fact, the federal aviation administration has mandated that by 2020 all commercial aircraft have gps on board. but the faa doesnt call the shots for international skies. >> the way that aviation happens in so many ways is still very local. its dependent upon government regulations, history, traditions, idiosin crow sis and at the local level. >> reporter: cockpit levels were reinforced, but long before 2001 calls for t...

Used to remotely record flight data in realtime. there are companies out there developing a capability where the information from the flight data recorder and from the voice recorder are streamed live to somebody on the ground in case they lose those black boxes. >> there are companies that can do that right now. and lets hope that this accident will help push that forward so that this is going to be mandated. >> but youre a 777 pilot, a lot of pilots dont like the idea of having everything they...

>> well, thats certainly going to make this a longer investigation. but if theyre able to get the fuselage and -- i hate to say body parts, but thats what were going to be looking at, theyre going to be able to tell a lot of information from that alone. >> peter, have there been crashes, investigations, where you havent uncovered the flight data voice recorders but still able to conclude what happened? >> they have been rare where weve missed one or the other, but where weve missed both, not rec...

Were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. youve heard that suspicion as well. >> thats right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be l...

Patience. can they afford to be patience? lets bring in our experts. pilot and international captain from northwest airlines, david, faa inspector and author and faculty member of ohio state university shawn. i want to start with you here and bring you in on the new piece of information, analysis of the flight data, so called satellite handshakes. definitive enough to tell members of those on board theres no chance of survival? do you find it that definitive? >> no. i find it very surprising. th...

Flight data and voice recorder.r orter: and we dont have a lot of time, wolf. and thats exactly what we wanted to show here today. the difference between hydrophones and also taking a look at s.o.n.a.r. theyre different and do different things. i want to introduce you to james coleman, senior hydrographer. i keep saying that wrong. hes going to show you how this works. break it down for us and show how this hydrophone works. >> that under water locater beacon is sending out sound, these pings. a...

How confidence is the company that that is what happened to 370 that it ended in the water. >> very reluctantly, weve been looking at the ping data for the last six or serven days, comparing it with other malaysian airlines, triple 777 in the region and looking at the flight data we can get from the pings. we mapped those pings against the southern and northern route. i can say theres a strong correlation with the southern route, and absolutely no correlation with the north, that it went south. ...

Senior vice president at inmarsat. >> the government made the announcement today based on data and analysis from your company given to them by uk officials. how confident is inmarsat that that is what happened to mh-370, it ended up in the water? >> we have been looking at it for six or seven days and comparing it with other 777s in that particular region and looking at the flight data we can get from the pings. what we did was to map those pings against the southern and against the northern rou...