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Warning light, these are two separate systems. boeing says that they will make one of these things no longer something that they charge for, no longer an add-on, but a standard part of the plane. but this is really ratcheting up the tension around boeing because people are saying if these are safety measures, to make this plane safer, why werent they free all along. why werent they considered a standard part of the plane. one of the answers is these types of add-ons are a big market for companie...

No longer an add-on, but a standard part of the plane. but this is really ratcheting up the tension around boeing because people are saying if these are safety measures, to make this plane safer, why werent they free all along. why werent they considered a standard part of the plane. one of the answers is these types of add-ons are a big market for companies like boeing. nonetheless, this will make the investigations of boeing which we know now from the fbi, justice department, just go even more...

You had to pay for those. tom foreman has more on these safety feature and what the company is doing now >> the heat around boeing is just getting hotter. these were considered add-ons by boeing and they would tell you that -- the pilots inside the plane, it would tell them that if these sensors on the front of the plane were reading that the plane was heading more up or if it was heading more down or if they disagreed with each other. readouts in the plane and also a warning light, these are tw...

Of whats going on in the plane, and i got wound up about this at the time of the air france 447, when it finally struck me, why are we still using this antique system? now, that was in 2009. in 2010, the french did a lot of work on showing how effectively these streamed information systems could do that job. and at the cost of $1,500 per plane per month. it can be done. but where are the priorities? priorities are stuck in the cabins full of entertainment and cell phone usage rather than measure...

Or too humid or hit by hail, for example. this protective skin and the self-healing skins, what they do is try to prevent that damage by, for example, incorporated micro capsules, that if the structure is broken, this micro capsule will release a resin that will be inside to actually heal those ruptures before it propagates to the rest of the aircraft. >> if theres a puncture, these capsules release and the resin hardens and fills that in to make the plane safer? >> absolutely. the number one ch...

Variability. >> gives you a complete picture of whats going on in the plane, and i got wound up about this at the time of the air france 447, when it finally struck me, why are we still using this antique system? now, thats in 2009. in 2010, the french did a lot of work on showing how effectively these streamed information systems could do that job. and at the cost of $1,500 per plane per month. it can be done. but where are the priorities? priorities are stuck in the cabins full of entertainmen...