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Killing they did recently shows they'll good to no end. >> she said the concern right now is to keep the girls alive and warned that serving u.s.- -- sending u.s. or other troops on the ground to search for the girls could lead to the girls being harmed. the drone operated out of chad by the u.s. military will be unarmed, as are the other manned and unmanned planes they pentagon is flying over nigeria. >> why do we 80 troops to fly the drone? >> that's the query question i asked pentagon spokesperson. she says the personnel include those who run the ground station and those who will provide fo...

System called adsb, automatic dependent surveillance broadcast. you're giving information that's sending directly from an airplane to a satellite and back down to a ground station that reports it. just similar to a radar situation. so air traffic control constantly knows where you are. and that system is available in the north atlantic. >> what do you mean from company to air traffic control? >> well, adsb is an air traffic control function where acars is more developed as a company-type function. in other words, taking engine data, other parameters at the company and dispatch dat that that th...

>> what about the new ping where after the last full ping there was a partial ping or partial handshake. there was a little bit more information. what do you make of the latest half ping? >> every hour when the ground station is getting no data from the plane it sends out a ping saying are you there and the plane sends back a signal saying we are still logged on to the network. there is no data going back and forth. there is just the ping. we are here. 8:11 a.m. malaysian time was the last full computer handshake. eight minutes later there is some evidence for a partial handshake. i'm sorry to...

Questions are continuing to pour in from our viewers about the fate of flight 370. our aviation analysts mark weiss, peter goelz. this is first for you. why can't satellites be viewed live in realtime? >> well, because the technology is the satellite views it, then transfers it to a ground station, which then transfers it to a station -- >> sometimes it takes three or four days for the image. it's like sending your kodak film to the drugstore to get it developed in a few days. there's got to be a faster way to do it. >> well, there probably is. but somebody described it as looking at the earth...

Talked to someone today who does these investigations. this is the greatest mystery ever in aviation history. >> what about the new ping where after the last full ping there was a partial ping or partial handshake. there was a little bit more information. what do you make of the latest half ping? >> every hour when the ground station is getting no data from the plane it sends out a ping saying are you there and the plane sends back a signal saying we are still logged on to the network. there is no data going back and forth. there is just the ping. we are here. 8:11 a.m. malaysian time was the ...