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The airplane for four years and now retired said he's never been down there. >> is that right? >> because there's no real need for us to be down there. there's one circumstance that i would go down there and that's simply after an incident there's a diagram on where to pull a particular circuit breaker like what's being pointed out here. >> if there was a fire on board or smoke, is that part of the procedure to turn circuit breakers off? turn off the in flight system, to turn off the acars? >> it wouldn't be to go down those steps to do it. it would be something that's done in the cockpit. we ...

Process. if we had a fire situation our objective toys get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. >> john, can you show some of the other systems down there. depressurizing, some of the other things that are possible to look at? >> they're tough to see. but collins makes radio gear. you can see here, we'll give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. it's ru...

The two black boxes, but they're two boxes encased in an orange aluminum shell, so the investigators can find them, even in a fire situation. >> greg feith, do appreciate your time. the pilots are on set with me here. dan rose, aviation expert, military pilot, an attorney as well, and captain bun, 40 years of pilot. thank you both for sticking around with me. we found out a few hours ago, and i didn't know this, that the black boxes are actually orange, apparently. i did not know that. i assume, obviously, that you did. >> we knew that. >> dan, let's pick up where we left off here a few minute...

houston, if you are just joining us we're getting our first look in the dragon. that was 5:53 eastern time. the two spacecraft were flying together 253 miles above the earth, to the west of auckland, new zealand. >> that is pretty cool stuff happening live as we're watching it. spacex is the first commercial flight to the iss. really cool stuff there. well, it is about time to hit the road if you haven't already, triple a estimates nearly 35 million people will be traveling more than 50 miles this weekend a slight increase over last year. most of the travel will be in the car with ...

Missing. they believe part of that might be because of the communication challenges in the area. because cell phone towers have been damaged in the area. it's very hard to get calls out sometimes. but the idea that so many people are missing is quite scary. and you're looking at how fast this fire is moving. we know this is an active fire situation. firefighters and police officers, even warning us, as we come into this area, that we would be on our own, because of the idea. they're still trying to battle and contain this as the people are trying to mull around this area. that's the other thin...