Dchl Adsb News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Outfitted with what they call adsb out which is the -- avionics equipment that gathers the data and transmits it to the satellite. so they're giving the air carrier, the owners of the aircraft, time to retrofit their fleets. it's an expensive process. but you're right. 2020 seems an awful long time to be able to track aircraft over open ocean. ads sbch dchl adsb is not designed specifically for that but to increase efficiency of the air traffic control system. we can do better, quicker, there's technology that can help prevent an mh event in a much shorter time frame. >> a little confusing to ...

I'm in my car with my cell phone. i can program in where i want to go, satellite picks me up and takes me anywhere i want to go. is it that more complicated to put such a system in an airplane? >> it is. and you know, anytime you're -- you know, putting new equipment in an aircraft, it can be a challenging event, but in this case, you know, you've got thousands of aircraft that were built prior to, you know, 2006, that simply don't have adsb out capabilities. it's going to take time to retrofit them, and it's expensive. >> and just to be clear. this will only track planes in american airspace,...

Ount and said that malaysia actually doesn't have the expertise to open the black box, to read that data. so they will be looking elsewhere for help. now, we know that the u.s., the uk and australia has those capabilities, but who exactly the malaysian authorities will be turning to, that is still unclear at the moment. carol? >> reporting live from malaysia this morning. thank you. learning anything from the disappearance of flight 370, it's that even these big, commercial planes with all their technology can simply disappear, go missing. already the faa is in the middle of a massive undert...