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Have a potential nexus where you can cross over from a, a nonsecure system into a secure system. >> has this been evaluated by any of the governments involved, of whether or not even another passenger may have hacked in? because the problem is, that once we went digital, in cockpits, the only way to overcome by a pilot someone that takes over the controls remotely, is analog. is there anything analog in that cockpit any more? >> no. just about everything is digital flight controls and fly by wire controls. so you no longer have for example, mechanical linkages running back to the rudders and t...

Future. >> final test of the flight control surfaces. >> as we hear the countdown in the background, one question on that. how we get up there will be the rockets. what can they take? what are the limitations? what advantages might they have? >> brian, it is a very reliable vehicle that's been flying for 40 years and carries three astronauts up to the space station but only a tiny amount of cargo. basically each person gets a small personal suitcase to take with them. when you come home, it can only bring about 60 kilograms, 130 pounds of cargo back to earth's surface. so having to step in to ...

Called the elevators, the back of the tail. the reason you do this you don't want to play games with flight control surfaces. there was one incidence where there was an issue and they've instructed the airlines to look at all 600 arms that have that configuration. the 737 is a workhorse, a tremendous safety record. whenever you start talking about the tail of the 737, though, people i think jump right into action rightfully so because we still have two accidents that -- one in colorado springs and one in pittsburgh that involved the rutter, which is a different part of the tail on the 737. so ...

News military analyst and aviator captain chuck nash who says it would be very difficult for pilots to do anything if someone else was trying to take over whether they were in the cockpit or very row motley -- remotely done. listen. >> just about everything, different taliban flight controls and fly by wire controls. so you no longer have, for example, mechanical linkages running back to the rudders and the elevators like did you in the old days because the control forces would just be too great. these are very large flight control surfaces. >> what he was saying also is that if everything is ...

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