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Sorry, in canada is using this and that's the price tag, $100,000 for the technology for each plane, why wouldn't other commercial airliners adopt this? >> well i don't think there's a good reason not to adopt it. but the reasons that have been given for refusing to do this realtime streaming data and there are many different systems, some propose that you would have realtime streaming data without a pilot trigger. for example, if the pilot was under hijack or incapacitated or simply didn't want to report that something was going wrong, the airplane itself would continuously stream the data. b...

Satellite capability. maybe they have some reason to send it out. if they find something, look how lucky we are. >> clive irving, sticking around after the break. going to talk about what it's like for journalists covering the magnitude of this story. much more after this. >> you probably never guessed figure skater max started on a different kind of ice. he started as a toddler. he started with his sister to help his game. he was starting in figure skates and ending in hockey skates. from 2007 he was well on his way to fulfilling his team. he was on the elite usa development team. in 2008 he ...

And when we would go out 1500 feet, i mean, it is we're talking about a small area of a vast ocean that literally is beyond the needle in a hay stack, but i have to wrong, michael you're going to stay with us. we'll bring in the former deputy minister tom blaine, tom, your thoughts about this specifically, was this a premium statement? >> well, sean, it could have been. the malaysians have very little credibility. they're ill prepared to handle a situation like this. what we know is that their military radar gave questionable information. they gathered poor data from the aircraft itself. they ...

Process. can that be improved, because folks who are learning about this say, gee, it's weird we learned how late we're actually tracking this stuff. >> well, with one of the things we have to point to is the fact that the malaysian government and malaysian airlines have not done a very good job. they really look pretty incompetent. a lot of the technical data we have to trace comes from what would appear to be some inadequate systems and an inadequate capability to read and understand the systems. whether that's the civilian radar, the military radar, they don't have any satellite capability ...

On the logistical front, over the past 24 hours, we have been working hard with other countries to narrow the search corridors. our focus is on four tasks -- gathering information from satellite surveillance, analysis of surveillance radar data, increasing air and surface assets, and increasing the number of technical and subject matter experts. on satellite surveillance, i cannot disclose who has what satellite capability, but i can confirm we have contacted every relevant country that has access to satellite data. on analysis of data in the southern corridor, australia and indonesia have agr...