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Poor. it's sort of a dead area between the ground stations where if you were to suddenly turn off your electronics and make a dash for it that would be the perfect place to do it. it might just be a coincidence. but if it was intentional that would be the place to do it. it would imply a certain level of sophistication on the part of the perpetrator if there was a perpetrator. obviously this is all conjecture. >> what i thought was interesting in your piece you went on to say who would want to do this. there are 37 million pounds and plenty of people in dodgy regimes around the world who would...

Incident it's time to figure out how to stream that information live instead of waiting for the box to be recovered from the crash site. >> you can get a lot of information out quickly and this could be recorded information for the last ten minutes that is sent almost instantaneously if the aircraft is in distress. >> data would stream live from the aircraft to a satellite, then to the ground. if the plane goes into a rapid roll or sudden loss of altitude, it would automatically trigger the data stream. the technology exists. why haven't airlines installed it? >> it takes a certain amount of m...

S in space. that the plane might someday carry weapons to shoot down enemy satellites. >> it may be used as a quick response vehicle where it could be used to be launched very quickly, be sent over the planet to dangerous spot very quickly. then, release weapons at that point. >> reporter: in a recent meeting with reporters, a top air force official said, no way. >> i don't know how this could be called weaponization of space. fundamentally, it's an updated version of the space shuttle kind of activities in space. >> liftoff. >> reporter: unlike the reusable space shuttle, the x-37b is unmanne...

Space shuttle, the x-37b is unmanned. it is much smaller and controlled by ground stations. it can stay in space for 270 days. the air force won't say how long it is staying up this time or what it will be doing other than testing out its high tech systems. the air force won't even say how many billions of dollars it is spending on the program. >> we don't know why it is so cla classified. you can't find out how much it is in the budget. >> the air force has been interested for years in developing some kind of space vehicle that it can send up into orbit and bring back down again to use. they ...

The speculation. some worry this is the beginning of military operations in space. that the plane might someday carry weapons to shoot down enemy satellites. >> they're also concerned it may be used as a quick response sort of vehicle, where it could be used to be launched very quickly, be sent over the planet to dangerous spot very quickly and then release weapons at that point. >> reporter: in a recent meeting with reporters, a top air force official said no way. >> i don't know how this could be called weaponization of space. fundamentally it's an updated version of space shuttle kind of ac...