Page 15 - Flight Tracking News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

If there was no speaking whatsoever, it suggests that they may have been unconscious. with regards to the data recorder, we have a lot of information already just from the flightaware and flight tracking web sites that give a lot of data actually in real time. so we know that that aircraft flew straight ahead, that it descended at a controlled rate even though it was rather high not excessively so it was a controlled descent. the speed was maintained so it was not a stall. the fact that it went straight ahead is very unusual with no calls. >> steve the descent was rapid but controlled. what do...

Roughly, based on the flight tracking websites about three minutes before it started to make a rather rapid but steady descent. you're looking at that, that's the blue line which is the altitude. so at this point, wolf, the cockpit voice recorder which is still missing, that's going to be critical because we will be able to hear on that recording what were the pilots saying were they saying anything was it total silence? that could be an indication of something as well if they were incapacitated or were they discussing with each other difficulties that were happening in the cockpit at that mom...

Make this crash even more perplexing. this is an aircraft that we're talking about here essentially as pamela said the workhorse of the aviation community. we know that it has an impeccable safety record. the aircraft had received its maintenance check just yesterday. and the captain of the plane we can also tell you has been with the airline for more than ten years. so what could have gone wrong? you can see that the plane's rapid descent, it was very steady. when you look at these flight tracking web sites you can see that it was not an abrupt descent. you look at the line there and you get ...

Just momentarily is having one safety recommendation, and that is global flight tracking. this is coming from the international civil aviation organization. preliminary findings and study on february 2 to 5, 2015, asking for global flight tracking. right now we track aircraft for about every 30 minutes in oceanic flights. they are probably going to be pushing back to do that tracking every 15 minutes, even as low as 10 minutes. and this is good news, because when we have, since 1948 80 oceanic remote aircraft that have been lost we've only found three this is the fourth. >> that's unbelievable...

Start with you, david. talk to me about the data and the fact that in today's day and age, you would think that we would be getting information from this plane, and why aren't we we? >> well, at best right now, we have clis. the clues are simplyt not enough. we can only speculate. and thousands of things could have happened right now, and no excuse for not having this information right now. and emarsat said they could put free flight tracking to know where the aircraft is and information about the cabin altitude and everything about the aircraft right now had that been implemented and it is bu...