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From the ferry called norman atlantic. and londons royal free hospital is preparing to treat the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the u.k. the nurse worked for save the children treatment center in africa. the search for airasia flight 8501 currently involves seven countries with indonesia taking the lead. there have been reports of oil slicks and a ping, and this has all turned out to be false leads. we have the managing editor of a publication. do you think maybe the plane could have ...

50,000 feet under water if it crashed where they said it did were talking 150 feet. why cant we hear them? >> because i dont think right now we have an exact location where the aircraft is. and i dont think we have the technology deployed to pick up that pinging sound. this is very elementary technology out there. this is very old technology that is just sending out a ping. we need to obviously upgrade that and get something a little more current. >> robert, before i let you go because were almo...

The plane under water? first, they will likely listen for it. >> this is a hydrophone. >> reporter: all commercial airplanes are required to carry pingers. underwater locator beacons attached to the black boxes. they emit a ping once a second. james coleman is a senior hydrographer a company that makes technology used just for this purpose. >> its an underwater microphone. youre going to put it together and tow it behind the vessel and use it to listen for the locator pinger. >> reporter: but un...

Through it? there comes a point, i think, when the pilots say, look how much time are we going to spend trying to find a better way? >> scott -- >> maybe this ones not so bad. >> -- what about these underwater locaters? its only 150 feet deep were told, this ocean. >> well, again because they are underwater makes it more difficult to hear the pinging of this. >> i mean, with all due respect, isnt that the very purpose of the underwater locater? i mean, this is like the malaysian airlines flight ...

The islands. no americans are on the missing jet but indonesia has officially asked the u.s. to help find the aircraft. as day three of the search begins rough weather continues to hamper the search efforts and any ping that would help in the investigation has yet to be detected. inning thanks very much. now i want to bring in the form he faa safety inspector and safety analyst as well as david gallow the director of special projects. it has been very successful in spotting lost planes in the pa...

Nonetheless, the technology exists to do this and what one must wonder after all this time, why its not deployed. and this would be effective over land. this is not good for just things in the water. it would still be valuable over land, too. >> chad, if the plane is at the bottom of the sea, how likely is it that the black box will work? they dont always work. >> the graphic behind me shows me what is about to go on. the water is not the southern indian ocean. its not 15,000 feet deep. its 40 m...

To life when a pilot or some other human has already made a mistake and prevent a catastrophe. there hasnt bean mid-air collision with a u.s. airliner since 1978. they have technology on the planes and radars on the ground sponsorship automation is a huge boom to safety. >> were talking about technology and we havent talked about the important thing that most people who are lay people like myself would understand the black box. what do we know? have we gotten any pings. is it too early? do we ha...

One, one, and does it surprise you that this kind of data tracking system was offered to the airlines, and they havent gotten it yet because of the bureaucracies. >> and the airlines refer to the ico, the international civil organization and they have the different reasons, i dont want to spend money in advance of the rule, because maybe -- >> this is free. >> and this is free, and no reason, as david said why these flights on transocean flights are not tracked. it is inexcusable. >> i want to g...

. >> he 45d tried to commit suicide in the past. she said he had been institutionalized at some point. the ex-girlfriend said he held his gun to his own head during that confrontation and apartment threat ping to kill himself with the gun before he shot her instead. >> if if he did act alone, whether he was guided by some ideology, whether there were e there was some you will malt goal in his mine e mind, this is someone who seems to have very little connection with others in his day-to-day life...

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