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Something is going to go terribly wrong. but i think that during that descent, they may not have had any questions about it, other than why are we descending but the point of impact, my point is there was no suffering, no painfulness. it was within seconds, within a second probably. that is when this occurred. i don't think there would have been pain and suffering at least. >> david, other crashers, twa flight 800, they basically reconstructed the entire aircraft. in a situation like this where you have such small pieces, will the black boxes be enough? do they actually need to go through that...

Cockpit voice recorder because there's a microphone over the captain, there's a microphone with the first officer and there's two area mikes as well. >> are there different sounds? depending on what's wrong on any given airplane, do the sounds differ depending on what's happening? >> absolutely. >> really? >> absolutely. so you might get a warning horn that will tell you one particular fault. there will be a warning chirp for another fault. there will be a siren for another fault. if the flight management computer is warning of something, it will make a particular noise. if they've deployed th...

Quickly. i'm not sure which one, but they should get a pretty quick read on at least what control inputs were taking place at the time. with the cockpit voice recorder what was happening in the cockpit at the time. what you describe this point of the flight it's actually probably the one point they get relax as much as you would like to, the top of climb. toc, they get to a point they hit their altitude. there may be a step climb. my guess they probably wouldn't in a flight this short. the plane is now on cruise and autopilot is certainly taken care of things and following the flight program t...

Functional, i agree with geoff on that. the reason it didn't perform is because you have to have a participating air traffic control in the system. i don't believe they participated. as far as turning it off, it's not the transponder that turns it off, but a function on the 777 of the flight management computer and then it can be turned off. next gen is going to the united states because we are participating in next gen. with other countries. europe is participating. other countries are and i'm not familiar with the far east. that's why the system failed with malaysia 370. >> david soucie. >> ...

Adsb 2 and they would have information constantly about every other aircraft that may even cross their path. >> would it still be possible, les, if a pilot or a co-pilot were able to determine a plane went missing, would it still be possible to do that, to make a plane go missing? >> well, dave and i talked about this new system, the satellite-based system. the airplane regulates the system. t they send it to a satellite system, the ground system sends it to air traffic control. this is what i use in the north atlantic. it is mandated almost totally in the north atlantic at this point and also...