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Undergoing a dramatic restructuring and struggling to regain the trust of travelers. the disappearance of flight mh-370 also has security officials working to see that it does not happen again. >> the focus is on tracking aircraft in real time. so far just one small airline is leading the way. >> reporter: it seems to defy common sense that a small regional airline can get it done when others can't. first air is the first, and so far the only airline in the world tracking its planes any time, anywhere. if this flight was having problems, you would know? >> yeah. >> we're able to swing into a...

Revenue so they had to put the expenditure of funds and resources coming up to level of standard that is required for international operation and they've done a pretty good job of that. >> is this also an economic story in terms of safety measures in indonesia keeping up with air traffic. we know they will need 216 thousand new pilots over the year more than any other. is this a story really about economics here. >> it is. just about every part of it is. when you talk about tracking aircraft. that's an economic situation as to how much money the airlines are able or willing to allocate for tha...

We do have some very accurate information that we get in tracking aircraft any time they're overland when you look at them 234 primary radar. that seems to work very, very well in that regard. when we look at anything over the water, we kind of lose track of these airplanes and make it into ground stations. and it could be done differently. it just costs money and you have to have the will to do it. >> so we're entering the black box face e phase. i think everybody's used to this by now. but what's your sense to what we know about the search right now. what's your sense on how long it will tak...

We've considered all of this but maybe this time it's time to take it seriously. take a look. >> we can't find it. we're not even sure we're looking in the right place. because flight 370's transponder was purposely shut down by someone in the cockpit or failed, search teams have been left to scour millions of square nautical miles. tech-savvy travellers wonder why. the director of the powerful international air transport association acknowledges the industry must act. >> we need to be in a position to track aircraft through the whole entire length of their flights even if they go outside norm...

Find that one. obviously, this is not going nearly as well, and soy think there will be some new and more innovative things that will come out of it. examples could be upstreaming or downstreaming the data off the flight data recorder so that it's not actually totally contained within the aircraft wreckage but would be at an outside source, makes it more readily available. i think we need to do a little bit better job of tracking aircraft, particularly aircraft that flies over vast ocean and south america, africa, places like that. >> right. right. and let me ask you, don, if you were right no...