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Dangers if it's activated accidentally, but let's say by some terrorist. >> well, it's interesting. when people say they're nervous about computering being on board airplanes, the horse it pretty far to the barn on that. computers pretty much already fly that aircraft and the pilot is really a voting member and often is overruled by the computers already. adding this one player of protection is probably not a bad idea frankly. however a pilot intent on cashing an airplane can come up with aumll kinds of doing that including flying around until you run out of fuel. in a system like this you nee...

Rule. if the policy was in place, how could that have changed things. what would have happened differently? >> many different things. for one, there would be a second pair of eyes. maybe someone would think twice before undertaking such a horrific act. also the pilot in command would have been able to get back in while the copilot was doing whatever the copilot was. there would be the chance of being locked out, would have been eliminated. however, i should remind folks that egypt air was actually crashed intentionally while both pilots were in there, the pilot intent on crashing the plane sim...

Cadets. they go through hard training to see whether or not they're mentally fit to fly an aircraft with people in it. they have to do multitasking under difficult conditions. he said this individual we all accounts passed all these tests and was 100% fit to fly. he acknowledged maybe they might have to change their procedures that have been in place many many years brooke. >> fred my thanks to you. right now we know airlines and plane manufactures across the world are facing tough questions. it centers on what you're about to see on your screen. the cockpit locking system. now we've learned o...

We have 12 planes from 6 countries. they divided into two sectors, east and the west. they fly four hours out, search with all available daylight. these planes can stay in the air 10 to 12 hours. also have five ships in the area, and you mentioned two under sea detection devices that haven't been deployed. the minute they have indication they might be closer to possible wreckage, they're going to be out there searching as well. >> we talked about the search and the new nugget from the head of the fbi today saying in a couple days, they're looking at the hard drives, not just from the pilot but...

And force them the other way. of course, the third possibility is disabled. somehow they were disabled through oxygen deprivation. >> jim tilmon, let me go back to you there has been a lot of talk today about pings that showed the plane continued to fly four or five more hours. could the plane have kept flying without pilot intent? >> to a certain extent, it could. but reverend al, one of the things i hope you'll get from somewhere is the timeline. exactly establishing what happened here in so many second or minutes later that happened there. i don't think we ever really saw a nice timeline, t...