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Stowed away and once you're in here, it's a pandora's box. these are the circuit breakers for the radios, over here, and there's also, interestingly, some -- there are some other devices and oxygen bottles in the bay, which also people have talked about. >> the acars disabled after the "good night" was given? >> before. well, we don't really know. at 1:07 is the last official acars transmission. the next one should have been about half an hour later. it never happened. so they believe somewhere after 1:07 it was disabled. >> so, john, is there any reason why a pilot or someone from the flight ...

Minutes. it was -- the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. here's the problem -- these systems can be turned off. that's what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information that's broadcast. another part would be making sure it's not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. >> so david, richard quest reporting that the streaming flight information is a recommendation in the malaysia preliminary report as far a...

Airlines flight 370 sparking new calls to improve air security by making it impossible to shut off a jet's key safety system. suggestions include better protection of the voice and data recorders, making it practically impossible for anyone to cut power to these devices in mid-air, and possible expansion of real-time satellite tracking of practically all airliners. john, great to see you. let's break it down with the four systems that you did in your article. these are the systems that could be tampered with. start with the acars. what is it and how can it be tempered with? >> the acars system...

Very rare. i think it's a great idea. >> we know in other instances it may have prevented this from happening. >> whether it actually caused the crash if you identify a safety risk, but it prevents the next crash. even if the pilot is innocent, down the road this may pay safety dividends. >> with the safety debates. when we talk about the cockpit, does that include the space below, for example, where the acars system is located? >> actually no. the cockpit is considered just to be the area that is above the deck. the engineering and electronics department where people pull up the lower 41 so-c...

Almost before the plane took off by malaysia air's decision, not to buy an app for their acars system. the aircraft was sold by boeing to malaysia air with a basic avionics suite that don't provide the upgrade that would have provided the same kind of information air france provided that would allow the investigators to within a week to at least know the area of the debris field they're looking for. the thought that a jumbo jet -- that would allowed this stream of information. so all those pings that we heard, we would have had a load of information, even if acars had gone down that would help...