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Malaysian officials will release the data of the plane's flight information and this could happen at any time. family members have been asking to see that data for weeks. let's bring in mary, a cnn aviation analyst and also an aviation attorney who represents the families of air crash victims. you have been waiting for this and we have been talking about this for a while. what do you think the biggest revelation is going to be from this data? >> i think the data will point out that it's more likely in the indian ocean but people will be surprised that it took a lot of computing and a lot of ma...

Minutes. it was -- the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. here's the problem -- these systems can be turned off. that's what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information that's broadcast. another part would be making sure it's not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. >> so david, richard quest reporting that the streaming flight information is a recommendation in the malaysia preliminary report as far a...

Think the plane actually crashed. they can get the ping locator in the water, that is important because the clock is ticking. the black box battery is due to lose power on saturday or a few days later. once that signal disappears, the chances of finding this plane anytime soon go way down. today's "wall street journal" also contains a detailed account of poor coordination, how two different teams used different flight information to determine where this plane crashed. their findings were 700 miles apart and led to a long delay, lost opportunities. so flight 370 disappeared march 8th. four week...

Might have been practiced here. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. have been pract. we have faa inspector mr. david suocie and jay laboeuf in the new day studio. >> we are cruising along. >> what are you flying now? >> we have the cockpit up, a 777, all the flight information, air speed, horizon, altitude, and we have here the center console, carrying the flight management computer and this is where the pilots would enter all of the waypoints for the trip that they would be flying. >> david hurricane is the obvious -- this is something that would be v...

That's one way acars can work. here's another way the system can work over here. this is really the brains of the whole aircraft here. the computer. and it's been programs before we took off with everything of our flight information, everything you need to know about this particular aircraft, where it's headed, how it's flying. and once again here you see acars, i can bring up the menu and there are various functions that i can use. this is a way to communicate beyond just radio. it is another backup system for communication and in remote areas this actually can work better than radio. it's al...