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Circumstances like the plane deviating from its flight path. a sudden pitch or roll. these systems don't send back the cockpit voice recordings. >> we have a cultural problem with the airlines and the airline unions for the pilots. they do not want big brother in the cockpit. >> reporter: the faa doesn't require american carriers to outfit their jets with live streaming. and the canadian companies tell us only a few u.s.-based airlines carry them. they won't say which ones. why aren't more major airlines using live streaming? >> it's always cost. the airlines don't want to put anything else in...

>> reporter: predefined by the airline. circumstances like the plane deviating from its flight path. a sudden pitch or roll. these systems don't send back the cockpit voice recordings. >> we have a cultural problem with the airlines and the airline unions for the pilots. they do not want big brother in the cockpit. >> reporter: the faa doesn't require american carriers to outfit their jets with live streaming. and the canadian companies tell us only a few u.s.-based airlines carry them. they won't say which ones. why aren't more major airlines using live streaming? >> it's always cost. the air...

Live streaming on that plane, we would at least have some answers right now. michael goldfarb says the case is a game changer in live streaming. >> another alternative to the black boxes that exist right now. >> right. a deployable recorder, it's a box that would automatically eject from a plane if it's in distress and land separately in the water or on the ground. those exist in some military planes. >> military planes. >> right. >> maybe they should do it in commercial airliners as well. they've got ideas, technology's there. they haven't done it yet. >> right. >> thanks very much. let's d...

Rare on this aircraft. this is the most reliable aircraft in the skies right now. >> jim, you held a high jock at the ntsb. you were former chairman, where would you now take this investigation to try to get some kind of resolution. >> the international aviation organization they need to equip these aircraft. they've been sitting on that recommendation for five years. if this aircraft had been equipped with a deployable recorder like the f-18 aircraft we have in the united states, like the p3s that are conducting the search for the australian air force, we would know and have the information o...

>> reporter: searchers took two years to search for that flight that went down in the atlantic killing 228 people. experts say there's another possibility as well, a deployable recorder, a box that would automatically eject from a plane when it's in distress and land separately on the ground or in the water. those already exist in some military planes. wolf? >> and that air france plane five years ago did transmit some data in realtime, right? >> it certainly did. basic maintenance data which gave includes about what they call the pitot tubes. that turned out to be the problem on that aircraft...