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Malaysian officials will release the data of the planes flight information and this could happen at any time. family members have been asking to see that data for weeks. lets bring in mary, a cnn aviation analyst and also an aviation attorney who represents the families of air crash victims. you have been waiting for this and we have been talking about this for a while. what do you think the biggest revelation is going to be from this data? >> i think the data will point out that its more likely...

Minutes. it was -- the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. heres the problem -- these systems can be turned off. thats what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information thats broadcast. another part would be making sure its not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. >> so david, richard quest reporting that ...

Think the plane actually crashed. they can get the ping locator in the water, that is important because the clock is ticking. the black box battery is due to lose power on saturday or a few days later. once that signal disappears, the chances of finding this plane anytime soon go way down. todays "wall street journal" also contains a detailed account of poor coordination, how two different teams used different flight information to determine where this plane crashed. their findings were 700 mile...

Might have been practiced here. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. have been pract. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. >> we are cruising along. >> what are you flying now? >> we have the cockpit up, a 777, all the flight information, air speed, horizon, altitude, and we have here the center console, carrying the flight management computer and this is where the pilots would enter all of the waypoints for the tr...

Thats one way acars can work. heres another way the system can work over here. this is really the brains of the whole aircraft here. the computer. and its been programs before we took off with everything of our flight information, everything you need to know about this particular aircraft, where its headed, how its flying. and once again here you see acars, i can bring up the menu and there are various functions that i can use. this is a way to communicate beyond just radio. it is another backup...

Thats because according to investigators, everything is on the table. in fact, officials now believe the plane might have been sending out electronic signals or pings four to five hours after its radar beacons stops transmitting. tonight weve just learned that u.s. officials believe the radar beacon or transponder was shut down separately from the system that continued sending out the empty pings 14 minutes apart. that could be extremely significant. american investigators telling abc news that ...

Columbian jungle and they had top flight information right away. this is inexcusable out of malaysia. the united states needs to take a more forceful role and step out and take the lead. what would they do differently? >> they would put order in this investigation. what you have to do in the moment after an accident, you have to get your hands around the neck of the information. that means you have to bring it all in, the radar tracks, the atc communication, the various eyewitness reports, whi...

>> 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...

About 4700 have faced delays. the worst has been in philadelphia, newark, and la guardia. there have been problems in miami and atlanta. thats mostly as a consequence of the ripple effect. all in all, its about a two-hour delay at most of the big airports. watch. >> my family is in california. im going to see them for thanksgiving. but my flight got delayed overnight. the plane from philadelphia is still late. so unfortunately i cant fly out until tomorrow morning at 10:00. ill have to make due ...

Canceled. about 4700 have faced delays. the worst has been in philadelphia, newark, and la guardia. there have been problems in miami and atlanta. thats mostly as a consequence of the ripple effect. all in all, its about a two-hour delay at most of the big airports. watch. >> my family is in california. im going to see them for thanksgiving. but my flight got delayed overnight. the plane from philadelphia is still late. so unfortunately i cant fly out until tomorrow morning at 10:00. ill have to...