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CNN CNN Special Report April 24, 2014 02:44:00

icao has done a lot of testing on satellite transmissions, on the sat-com system, how hay communicate through satellites. there's no reason it shouldn't be implemented at this point. as jeff pointed out real well, if this stuff is turned off, if the fedex box tracking system was turned off, you couldn't track that package. and this is what happened here. it was turned off. so it was either turned off or failed by some catastrophic failure. so we have to realize, we do have this now. >> jim, we just saw brian's piece. he report that these systems would cost about $100,000 a plane. they estimate that they may spend about a quarter of a billion dollars finding this plane. not to mention the anguish of the families. so wouldn't it be worth the cost? >> after the fact we can all become very, very expert money managers. but during the time when airlines are struggling to try to keep their bottom line intact and struggling to try to compete one with the other and all the kind of things that they have to deal with, $100,000 doesn't

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