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>> richard, let me ask you just to explain. you said that there's much better acars in this case as opposed to flight 370. what exactly do you mean by that? >> the aircraft advisory and reporting system. this is the computer. this is the way in which -- think of it as bluetooth. you know, the plane is constantly discoverable. the plane is constantly sending out information to the ground. and this aircraft -- remember, with mh-370 the acars were disabled, or switched off, or something happened to the acars that meant it no longer gave information. the transponder was switched off. it no longer ...

Captain, 6,100 hours. can you put that in some kind of context in terms of the range of flying hours of pilots for this airline? >> that would be rarely standard for the low cost airicarriers ie region. generally you'd have a guy in the pilot seat with 6,000 to 8,000 hours in his 30s to 40s. in the seat beside him in the co-pilot seat you could have somebody with 500 hours up to 2,000 hours. if anything from what i have seen, they both should have been pretty two experienced crew members sitting in the cockpit. >> pretty experienced crew members sitting in the cockpit at a time like this, i kn...

Made some recommendations, but nothing's been passed nothing's been implemented. and this is another wakeup call when you have an aircraft flying transoceanic flights, how do you track them on a more continue stand baysisbasis. >> initially it seems that weather was reported whether that truly was a factor we're still waiting to see. the difference between mh 370 and this. >> mh 370, there were mysterious things that have happened the turning off of the acar system the turning off of the transresponder the secret turn of the aircraft. in this case you had normal communications with the pilot, ...

To keep in mind, richard talked about the air craft being equipped with acar's better than 370 if i understood him right. the other thing that the air bus 320 has, this is the same plane that he put down in the hudson. one of the unique features of this air craft is that it has what's called a ditching switch which means all the openings underneath the air craft fuselage can be electronically closed so it's a more water tight air craft. if you do have to do a ditching. i'm not saying that this air craft ditched. we have no idea why it went down but if it went down, that's -- that's a very good...

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