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Finish your thought. >> well, the guys are picking up a computer data system, the acars. if someone wants to do something subversive in the cockpit, they can shut down the camera. >> maybe we should have transponders that can't be shut off. right, jeff wise? >> well, the president of the united states used to record all of his conversations. and it didn't work out well for nixon. >> he has cameras that follows him every day. >> richard nixon -- >> when les is at home, he doesn't have to have cameras on him. but at work, why not?

So i think the decision was $10 a flight. $100,000 an airplane. the view is that the boeing aircraft is a very safe aircraft and they just didn't want to do it from a cost standpoint. now we're paying a horrific price. we have no stability in the investigation. we don't know where it is. and now we're moving the search zone. so this is kind of a case study in looking back on this and how not to do it. it's going to change aviation forever in some very important areas going forward. >> steven marks, you heard what michael goldfarb had to say. you were involved in the air france litigation. does...

Ping. that's an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding just a piece of that plane. to find those so-called black boxes is highly unlikely. and most people believe could take many years. michael, the reason the difference between this search and air france comes down to a couple of things. malaysia air made a deci...

About attitude, heading, speed, altitude, all those things that are critical to kind of zone in on the crash site, they were out of this. we did not have that capability. so i think the decision was $10 a flight. $100,000 an airplane. the view is that the boeing aircraft is a very safe aircraft and they just didn't want to do it from a cost standpoint. now we're paying a horrific price. we have no stability in the investigation. we don't know where it is. and now we're moving the search zone. so this is kind of a case study in looking back on this and how not to do it. it's going to change avi...

Ill-fated turn. >> we've got to look at what we know. we know the acars went out of. we know the communication saying, all right good night. the transponder was turned off. it's vital. it gives position. it gives squawk, 2157. we know from yesterday what the transcript said and we know it was at flight level three-five-zero. this is unequivocal data but it's the last we have. we know that they were told to go to 120.9. they didn't go. what were the emergency protoco protocols. there was a distress cell. it has a radio to get in touch with the cockpit and talk to other aircraft in the corridors...