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Either on the ground or in the water. those already exist in some military planes. brian todd, cnn, at reagan national airport. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now my panel of experts. jeff wise, i dont know if you saw this by clive irving. he wrote a scathing article that says, "why are we so dependent on a system that allows all the crucial data about the whereabouts and condition of an airliner to disappear along with an airplane?" he said, "people are angry, they cant understand...

National airport. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now my panel of experts. jeff wise, i dont know if you saw this by clive irving. he wrote a scathing article that says, "why are we so dependent on a system that allows all the crucial data about the whereabouts and condition of an airliner to disappear along with an airplane?" he said, "people are angry, they cant understand how that is a fedex package can be tracked to the far corners of the earth, but an airliner apparently cant."...

Talked about a few days ago. we go through the night. at 2:15 a.m. youre at 11:00 a.m. in the morning. the plane was last seen on a satellite. the acars system transmitting information stopped and there is part of a transmission on board the plane that still connects with satellites as it goes, maybe every hour, every 60 minutes. that handshake we talked about at 8:11 a.m., the last handshake apparently took place. where was the plane? we have an aviation attorney and aviation law professor and ...

Equipment that runs these transponders were talking about that basically talks in radar terms. a radar hits the plane and says i see a plane. this essentially responds and says yes, you do see a plane and the plane is malaysian air and this is where we are and this is where were going anderson. right up front you have a lot of systems communicating with the ground. >> theres obviously the flight data recorders. but at this point theyre not any help, right? >> reporter: theyre not any help at all...