Flight Recording Technology News Today

In real time even though the technology does exist? also new details and harrowing new stories from survivors who spent hours trapped aboard a burning ferry.

Not only does it record all the vital information that the flight recorder normally gathers, it can intercept that information, and track it and start transmitting. these signal also go to the satellite, override all other traffic. theyll get a priority thats the protocol. so between the time that something happens to a plane, as in this case for example, and when it hits the water, if thats what it ends up doing, it will already have a lot of data and tell you what went wrong in that plane. you...

>> this is the second time in ten months that weve seen the enormous expense and frustration of these sea searches. you remember that the only thing we had with mh-370 was through a company called inmarsat a company that owns this fleet of satellites. they had continuous contact with that plane. i went to london and talked to the people there. in fact, their equipment has 80% of the worlds wide body fleet. the plane involved here with a narrow body. but they have this technology and they are rea...

♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if youre salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ its what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. its what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ im pushing. im pushing it real good! ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now...i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release t...

>> reporter: but with more questions about another missing commercial jet, the high-tech black box may get a second look. >> the technology exists its in service, its economical. and the question now is how to get more widespread use of it. >> reporter: besides cost the other reason commercial jets dont have that kind of satellite technology theyre waiting on a task force to decide on which technology to adopt for entire fleets and when they do decide planes that fly international will get that ...

To china. its really been a devastating year for airlines based in malaysia beginning with the disappearance of flight 370. ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now...i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. thats why i choose nicoderm cq. my tempur-pedic made me fall in love with mornings again. i love how it conforms to my body. with tempur-pedic the whole bed is comf...

The mystery of what happened to the airasia jet is renewing calls for better tracking devices aboard airliners. cnn business correspondent alison kosik looked into the available technology. >> reporter: right now when an airplane disappears the story of what went wrong vanishes with the black box. but what if we had those answers all along? >> we would know where the aircraft has gone where it is and we would have information on what happened in the meantime. >> reporter: canadian company flight...