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Upon thousands and thousands of aircraft there's the issue of managing the data, protecting the data and somebody has to monitor that full time and actually understand the context in which the data is provided. i don't think we are ready to go there yet. >> you don't think there are enough people or we can find a way to improve safety and find people to monitor the streaming data if it helps improve the safety of flying? >> well, if they were able to figure out the technological challenges, i think there's other unforeseen issues with having video recordings especially streamed back to ground ...

>> you don't think there are enough people or we can find a way to improve safety and find people to monitor the streaming data if it helps improve the safety of flying? >> well, if they were able to figure out the technological challenges, i think there's other unforeseen issues with having video recordings especially streamed back to ground stations. i will give you one great example. what if somebody was able to get, somehow tap in to a streamed video from a flight crew going beyond the privacy concerns which of course we have great concerns over that. what if there was a conversation taken...

Outfitted with what they call adsb out which is the -- avionics equipment that gathers the data and transmits it to the satellite. so they're giving the air carrier, the owners of the aircraft, time to retrofit their fleets. it's an expensive process. but you're right. 2020 seems an awful long time to be able to track aircraft over open ocean. ads sbch dchl adsb is not designed specifically for that but to increase efficiency of the air traffic control system. we can do better, quicker, there's technology that can help prevent an mh event in a much shorter time frame. >> a little confusing to ...

Used to remotely record flight data in realtime. there are companies out there developing a capability where the information from the flight data recorder and from the voice recorder are streamed live to somebody on the ground in case they lose those black boxes. >> there are companies that can do that right now. and let's hope that this accident will help push that forward so that this is going to be mandated. >> but you're a 777 pilot, a lot of pilots don't like the idea of having everything they're saying in the cockpit recorded for people down at ground stations to hear. >> well, you know,...

At the end of its fuel line, it's in extremis. that's the point upon which the plane is going down. >> we've got john ostrow on the line now. can you hear me now? >> cane hear you. >> this report about the partial ping. i suppose the key interpretation of this, depending on who you talk to, is does it indicate perhaps more mechanical failure than a more nefarious reason for why the plane went down? >> that's the key to understanding this ping. really what investigators are looking at right now what is the significance? what actually causes a partial ping on the aircraft. what's really importan...