it s touched the salt water, there s 16 satellites orbiting the earth all the time. what they re monitoring is a 406 megahertz frequency. there s there for ships that go down, the eprbs we re talking about the rafts, emergency position radio beacon is that piece. that thing is designed to send a signal to the satellites. so i m very concerned about the fact that there were at least two, as many as ten either eprbs or elts on board that aircraft and no signal. david gallo, i don t know if you know the answer to this. on the air france flight did the elts go off? did that plane have them? i ve never heard that, anderson. so you could go back and look at the reports. anyone can go online and look back at the reports. but that s the first i ve heard of that. david? it s a different model aircraft. so it s not required by far or
it can hit the automatic pilot. it will take you right to where your destination is, right? that is all correct. and i don t want to discount anything yet because we don t have any proof to the contrary. but the pilot doesn t need the flight control computer to fly. so all of this stuff about having to change way points and reprogramming, that is nice, not necessary. it is not necessary, but information we have was telling us it was altered on the computer. so that means it was done by somebody who has aviation knowledge, right? absolutely, not just aviation knowledge, but knowledge of that airplane. now, there is one point here i need to clarify. i said this yesterday. the elts go off under normal circumstances. but the pilot can disable the one that is in the tail with the switch in the overhead panel above him. because frequently pilots land hard and don t want to set off the beacon. the ones in the back have to be manually turned on by the flight attendants when you ditch at