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And theres a lot of debris out there in the ocean. would you estimate that the chances of this actually being related to the missing flight to be, you know, very, very low. maybe 1%. >> well, the chances on each piece of debris that they find out there being related individually are very low. i think their search area has been guided by more technical data as they get it in on where to look for the plane and then, of course, the hard part it has been so long, even when they find debris from the ...

The aircraft. its going to give us impetus to make some changes in the way that we monitor these aircraft, the way that we record this data, this flight data and the cockpit voice data, in ways that were not going to have to find the aircraft to find out whats going on. were going to be able to get that data from the satellites. >> okay, robert goyer, thanks. that hillary clinton story we told you about, thats coming up in about ten minutes. also, a firsthand account of what life is like ins...

Telemetry of all of the flight data is where we will end up. it is just that it is costly. there are bandwidth issues, but we have had telemetry on the space shuttle that has been flying since 1981. so the technology is there. i have to say that rulemaking in the area of flight data recorders is always difficult, because there are simply federal requirements that you do show a positive cost benefit, and we have virtually never had an unsolved accident involving a transport airplane, and this cou...

The flight data recorder, but we got all the data. so thats not a concern. its just going to be much harder to track down when you dont have that identification ping being sent out to make it easier to find. >> this mystery flight has gotten a lot of talk of new technology that needs to be added to these planes. one of them making flight data and voice recorders that have a greater capacity. why would anybody fight -- is sounds like something so positive. is that a tough technology to create? i ...

Opportunity. and for the task we had today, the conditions were outstanding. unfortunately, the conditions back here precluded us from staying as long as we would have liked. however, there are a few other aircraft out there. the united states navy poseidon out there still searching. and with any luck, well find something shortly. weve got a lot of hope. and if the conditions remain as they are, hopefully well find something soon. >> the mystery has now given way to gear. because for their part,...

Flight 370. shep? >> tough to bear. >> the federal aviation administration reports its taking steps to prevent cyberattacks on the 777. sources as boeing say they dont think hackers attacked the missing plane because its systems are older, but faa officials say theyre trying to fix a security loophole that could let passengers access critical flight data through cabin computers. well, if the objects in -- now in the frame mouse satellite photos are in fact part of the missing jet, and the debr...

Ken christiansen, certified aircraft crash investigators, retired u.s. air force. guys, thanks very much for coming in. mike, let me start with you. these batteries powering what i call these pingers on the flight data voice recorders, they have, what, only 15 or 16 days left before they go dead and the pinging stops. you say its going to be really hard to pick up those sounds, those pinging sounds, if they are anywhere around the bottom of that southern indian ocean. >> well, those are very low...

The evidence may be again available in those black boxes in the cockpit voice recorder. and were almost 13 days in. were starting day 13. these have a life of about 30 days? >> thats correct. >> the aircraft will have two boxes. one is called the flight data reporter. the battery hes on the -- it is called the underwater location pinger. and that party is going to send out a sig fal for about 30 days. if you dont locate the boxers in that window,er that not going to have that -- you have to visu...

All the flight data. so the attitude, altitude, air speed, all of that will go in and they can reconstruct that and depict that in a simulator in realtime. >> first, you have to find it. the air france crash, where they found the debris in two days, it took two years to find the jets, therefore the black boxes, as we call them. thats a long and tedious process. its important to remember how deep this is in this area. its said to be some 3,000 meters deep here. thats a very tall order. >> yes. an...

Buoys are that the planes will carry, some of them at least, theyll drop these sonar buoys in the water and theyll be listening, hoping to find some sort of ping from those flight data and voice recorders. >> well, in the air france search, wolf, we didnt use buoys. we used towed pinger locators which are towed from ships. im not sure theres a buoy thats capable of listening to this, but that would be ideal to get a large field out there which could direction find to where the pings are coming f...