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Hazardous conditions. pilot planes could be a $400 billion a year global business. why not passenger flights? first, the airline industry has remarkable safety record despite high profile disasters. many believe on board pilots remain the most reliable way to handle problems and retrofitting planes would cost billions of dollars. second passengers may not be ready. there are questions about reliability, questions about what happens if plane like this gets loose from its electronic teether and what is terrorists take over a ground station and take control of the plane. one would be having multi...

Handle problems and retrofitting planes would cost billions of dollars. second passengers may not be ready. robert goyer is with "flying" magazine. >> how i would feel without pilots? i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: there are still questions about reliability. what happens if one of the planes gets loose from the electronic tether? just as importantly, what if terror i haves take over a ground station? in that fashion they take control. one possible solution to all of that would be to have numerous ground stations that have to work in tandem with the flight. even then what if a hacker interrupt...

We do have some very accurate information that we get in tracking aircraft any time they're overland when you look at them 234 primary radar. that seems to work very, very well in that regard. when we look at anything over the water, we kind of lose track of these airplanes and make it into ground stations. and it could be done differently. it just costs money and you have to have the will to do it. >> so we're entering the black box face e phase. i think everybody's used to this by now. but what's your sense to what we know about the search right now. what's your sense on how long it will tak...

That uses the ground stations also. obviously it wasn't utilized in the part of the world that we lost mh-370 in. but all this thing is going to do is being able to track the airplane and maybe get a more precise location if we have another issue. >> is the infrastructure in place to be able to mandate that if governments were to choose to do so? >> yeah, i think so. but to clarify some mythology here airplanes are attract -- over the oceans we don't have radar coverage like we do over most land areas. but we're still in contact with company staff on the ground. that's by regulation. we're alw...

Ukrainian aircraft, and then as the story goes along they find out it's something else. it's clear they were speaking openly, freely, unabashedly, and that's one reason to believe it's true. communications can also be used for deception but i don't think there was any deceit? what these guys were talking about, and that's part of the evidence we have. >> talk to me more, if you, colonel, what kind of intelligence we would be working with right now? >> thanks, harris. a great way. we have imagery, intelligence, primarily from satellites above. i doubt we have any drones in the area, although we...