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Becomes incapacitated before the crash. video can provide critical information for investigators. not everybody is in favor of this. brian has the story. >> harris, many pilots are against the cameras. they see it as an invasion of privacy. imagine a camera recording everything you say and do at your desk. they argue video recordings could be made public or leak online. pilots say current voice and data recorders that closely monitor all audio and data are sufficient. >> you have a recording of everything the airplane is doing every single switch that is thrown, every change in the altitude or...

Could be made public or leak on line after an accident. pilots say current voice and data recorders that closely monitor all audio and data are sufficient. >> you have a recording of everything the airplane is doing, every single switch that's thrown, every change in altitude or heading or engines or whatever else, or flaps. what ese do you need to feel comfortable. >> the use of video cameras was first proposed in 2000 by the national transportation safety board arguing cameras provide critical visual information like during an emergency, were both pilots in the cockpit, did smoke from a fire...

Investigators, what stood out to you? >> what stood out to me was the complete confusion. the facts from the immediate -- the immediate facts that came out. nothing added up. nothing checked. there was a huge question from day one. we usually have a clearer direction quite soon as to we need to look at the aircraft and the pilots. this has been confusion since day one. >> do you think -- many expected the data recorders would provide more information. the voice recorders provided a lot of the detail we were looking for. do you think that, of course, we haven't found the data recorder, once tha...

Suicide but all the evidence points to a suicide. >> unfortunately we can't put these -- this data recorders in people's heads. pilots. only put them -- >> -- right. >> inside the cockpit. but that we have different rules here in the united states. you can't leave a cockpit lone and that maybe that would, you know, could have possibly maybe prevented what happened in france. >> well you would at least have had a chance to do something about it the pilot sitting in the seat having to get up to counter someone else in the cockpit in order to commit an act like this. would have to extradite himse...

Isn't that something that if there was an accident if there was some sort of reason to need to check that authorities on the ground would have faster access to that video if it was able to be streamed and recorded somewhere rather than having to wait to get the data recorders? >> well it's a very interesting idea and one that i think should be investigated but, again, the devil's in the details. if we start streaming, especially video from every single flight at any given time there's anywhere from 5 to 10,000 aircraft in the air worldwide. that's an incredible amount of data. where are we goi...