CNN New Day December 29, 2014 13:12:00
Transmission of that data? >> not likely. the airplane would continue to put out signals, particularly a 6-year-old air bus. we don't know if they had the same system on air france 447 which sends out system status updates. and that the plane continues to broadcast regardless of the pilot's action. the pilots don't have to send communications. the plane tells the airline base what's going on with the aircraft. if the they have those messages the plane would send them out regardless of what is going on in the cockpit. >> this was the air bus 320. that's the same type of airplane that sullen bur...