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 don t 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 can t understand how that is a fedex package can be tracked to the far corners of the earth, but an airliner apparently can t. why do we use technology why don t we use the best technology available? is this about money? it certainly is about money. in the case of air france 447, they had a system transmitting via satellite every minute. it was automatically reporting to the maintenance center in france. malaysia airlines just subscribed to a cheaper system that didn t report as often. it was only about a
national airport. thank you very much. i want to bring in now my panel of experts. jeff wise, i don t 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 can t understand how that is a fedex package can be tracked to the far corners of the earth, but an airliner apparently can t. why do we use technology why don t we use the best technology available? is this about money? it certainly is about money. in the case of air france 447, they had a system transmitting via satellite every minute. it was automatically reporting to the maintenance center in france. malaysia airlines just subscribed to a cheaper system
talked about a few days ago. we go through the night. at 2:15 a.m. you re 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 he is with me now in studio. how are you doing, sir and good morning to you. i thought 24 hours ago i thought the plane was in the ocean. i listened to brenner last night, wow, the story changed again. what do you think about all that scenario? what brenner surmises is pretty accurate. he has a good handle on this. knowing that it was a slow turn first of all is significant. a slow turn more likely done by autopilot than by hand flying.
systems communicating with the ground. there s obvious lit flight data recorders. but at this point they re not any help, right? reporter: they re not any help at all right now. the flight data recorder is a fantastic piece of equipment. let me roll this plane around and show you where that s located. the flight data recorder is in the back of the plane. and you can take a close look at it there. that s the voice recorder located back there as well, the lines run back to it. that system will record virtually everything this plane is doing, every position of every control, every movement it makes, every buffet of wind it feels. but you re correct. they re no good until you can get to them. that s why you have to look at things likes the acars system transmitting information from things like the engines, spinning it out so people can see fuel consumption, things like that. the question of course, anderson, as you re asking tonight what are you getting from acars. tom, appreciate th
equipment that runs these transponders we re 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 we re going anderson. right up front you have a lot of systems communicating with the ground. there s obviously the flight data recorders. but at this point they re not any help, right? reporter: they re not any help at all right now. the flight data recorder is a fantastic piece of equipment. let me roll this plane around and show you where that s located. the flight data recorder is in the back of the plane. and you can take a close look at it there. that s the voice recorder located back there as well, the lines run back to it. that system will record virtually everything this plane is doing, every position of every control, every movement it makes, every buffet of wind it feels. but you re correct. they re