questions in your mind? it puts boat loads of questions in my mind and here s why, the indonesian press, and granted i had to read it through google translations, but 70% of the units are damaged. it only operates half the time, not 24 hours a day, but 12 hours a day. they have new radar on order, but they re just starting to take deliveries in 2014, and it won t be finished for another decade. in other words indonesia has been under tremendous criticism for the lack of radar coverage. i think it sounds like creating a nifty story to explain why they didn t get any radar sightings because they re not likely to. they said that 40% of the rarda units in indonesia are so damaged and old. it s a fact of life, things get broken.
we ve considered all of this but maybe this time it s time to take it seriously. take a look. we can t find it. we re not even sure we re looking in the right place. because flight 370 s transponder was purposely shut down by someone in the cockpit or failed, search teams have been left to scour millions of square nautical miles. tech-savvy travellers wonder why. the director of the powerful international air transport association acknowledges the industry must act. we need to be in a position to track aircraft through the whole entire length of their flights even if they go outside normal radar coverage and so on. we need to now look at the best way, most effective way of tracking aircraft wherever they may happen to be. reporter: the agony of the families of those missing only adds urgency to act. you can continuously track one second at a time for
tracked in real-time so this can t happen again. that seems to be the should be the priority objective. now, he is also calling on countries to be better about changing passenger i.d.es against a database of stolen parts and malaysia is one of the countries that, according to this gentleman, does not do a very good job of checking the addiction. in this case didn t check at all. apparently not. apparently not. the search business is dangerous, too. australian officials hey deployed a flying air traffic control center to help search teams from help keep them from crashing into each other. we have a photo on the wall over here. officials say that air craft uses an advanced radar system to moner to the skies above the search area. planes have been flying so low, new zealand air force officials warned pilots to watch out for ships, and remember, investigators say part of the reason finding the plane has been so difficult is there is essentially no radar coverage over that part
prevent future potential air disasters like it. some in the airline industry are speaking out, like tony tyler. he announced his organization is forming a task force to make recommendations about how to keep track of planes. first, we need to be in the position to track aircraft through the whole entire length of the flight. even if they go outside normal radar coverage. i want to bring in perry flint. he s head of corporation communications for the iata. perry, if i can ask you, a task force, what would we be trying to figure out at this stage where we haven t found the debris, you have to determine what caused the crash. that s correct. the task force is not focusing on finding a probable cause of the accident. obviously that s the responsibility of the accident investigation.
by 1989 all aircraft operating up to 10,000 feet within 30 miles of terminal control areas must be equipped with transponders that convey altitude information. by 1993 all commercial carrier aircraft with ten seats or more operating within u.s. airspace are equipped with traffic alert and collision avoidance systems, tcas. the culmination beginning back with piedmont flight 22 going through the psa accident and then finally through the cerritos accident were all building blocks to promote this technology, which evolved into the modern system of tcas, which is a great predictive tool. the faa really had to take the bull by the horn, if you will, and do something to try and prevent these accidents from occurring. we increased or enhanced radar coverage.