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What do you do as an investigator when you don't have that? where do you start on something like that? >> that investigation was handled by the french, and what we had in that particular event was the airbus has a similar system to every other modern airplane and that is it can provide downloaded data bursts, given a health check of the airplane. so there was some limited data, some data that was being provided by the airplane in those data bursts that investigators had to analyze early on in the investigation. when they lost radar information, again, they had to go out and search for the wrec...

Different data bursts, but now you're talking hundreds of thousands of airplanes down bursting all of this information. you got to capture it, it takes a lot of bandwidth and there's just not enough satellite, you know, space up there and bandwidth to capture the amount of data we're looking at. >> this has been discussed for many years, so it's an option, and certainly so, there is a give and take here, but now you've got nine countries who are participating in the search for this 777 massive plane, 239 people, two infants, two children, i should say, on there. and the possibility of somethin...

Catastrophic event and trying to piece it together there, having technology that is in real time available, and it says it's been discussed for many years but never implemented because of the cost. the concept of automatically transmitting data would be using satellite links to use critical safety information from an airliner to the ground during extreme emergencies or just before a plane goes down. why is the cost an issue here when we know that these incidents can happen and this information is critical? >> tamron, when you look at the amount of data that would have to be downloaded, it woul...