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Either on the ground or in the water. those already exist in some military planes. brian todd, cnn, at reagan national airport. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now my panel of experts. jeff wise, i don't know if you saw this by clive irving. he wrote a scathing article that says, "why are we so dependent on a system that allows all the crucial data about the whereabouts and condition of an airliner to disappear along with an airplane?" he said, "people are angry, they can't understand how that is a fedex package can be tracked to the far corners of the earth, but an airliner appar...

National airport. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now my panel of experts. jeff wise, i don't know if you saw this by clive irving. he wrote a scathing article that says, "why are we so dependent on a system that allows all the crucial data about the whereabouts and condition of an airliner to disappear along with an airplane?" he said, "people are angry, they can't understand how that is a fedex package can be tracked to the far corners of the earth, but an airliner apparently can't." why do we use technology -- why don't we use the best technology available? is this about money?...

Talked about a few days ago. we go through the night. at 2:15 a.m. you're at 11:00 a.m. in the morning. the plane was last seen on a satellite. the acars system transmitting information stopped and there is part of a transmission on board the plane that still connects with satellites as it goes, maybe every hour, every 60 minutes. that handshake we talked about at 8:11 a.m., the last handshake apparently took place. where was the plane? we have an aviation attorney and aviation law professor and he is with me now in studio. how are you doing, sir and good morning to you. i thought 24 hours ago...

Equipment that runs these transponders we're talking about that basically talks in radar terms. a radar hits the plane and says i see a plane. this essentially responds and says yes, you do see a plane and the plane is malaysian air and this is where we are and this is where we're going anderson. right up front you have a lot of systems communicating with the ground. >> there's obviously the flight data recorders. but at this point they're not any help, right? >> reporter: they're not any help at all right now. the flight data recorder is a fantastic piece of equipment. let me roll this plane ...