board, many turned to the website flight radar 24. flight radar 24 revealing the exact moment that the airbus jet began falling from 31,000 feet detecting the plane wobbling from side to side, an indication it broke apart before plummeting to earth. something the faa hasn t done, ntsb and europe hasn t been able to pull it together. reporter: now used by airlines and intelligence officials to track friglights, started as a game make. the flight tracking service became much more popular than the price comparison part. reporter: son tracking planes became robertson s primary business. flight radar 24 is the number one selling app for apple in more than 100 countries. flight radar building a never before seen map of the skies with realtime information on every single one of the 100,000 flights that take off and land
will be reassessing in coordination with israeli authorities and the faa how and when they decide they re going to resume flights into israel. i would expect other ails will follow suit. the german carrier said no chajs changes. but u.s. airlines making the decision it s probably best to steer clear as rockets become close to the airport there in tel-aviv. the white house said the faa hasn t issued any notices. it s as you pointed out individual basis base order what the carriers decide. the notice to airmen procedure can take a little time, i mean, it can happen within, you know, 20 minutes to an hour or even longer. days in some cases, but clearly when you have rockets falling near the airport, the airlines can make the immediate decision to divert and suspend flights should they decide to do so. just incidentallily, this is important, the people who close air space, or who govern air
technology the two pilots did not have at the time. by having this tool, it clearly identifies each one of these. reporter: illustrations on screen showy runway is ahead. it s been seven years since it was recommended all cockpits have this ktechnology. but the faa hasn t mandated it. the technology most of us have in our pockets. so what we re asking is to give this type of technology to the pilots who might need it the most. advance the throttles. short runway. short runway. so you get a clear warning and a red indication that things are not correct. reporter: how important is something like this? in today s world, it s very important. it gives you that additional situational awareness. reporter: technology that
the fbi and new york police are up to their elbows in dirt and dust. meticulously sifting through layers of soil six feet deep below a basement floor recemented in 1979. the same year 6-year-old etan patz disappeared. we re cautiously optimistic as law enforcement always is when it executes search warrants that they will find what they re looking for. reporter: looking for etan s remains who lived a half block from the search scene. his parents still live here. he vanished after his mom kissed him good-bye 33 years ago. he came straight out this door out decked out in a corduroy jacket. he can t wait to get to school. for the first time, his parents allow him to walk two blocks down the street this way to get to the school bus stop all by himself. along his route that basement where a law enforcement source say etan had been the day before with neighborhood carpenter otheneil miller. this author says miller was no stranger to the patz family. they knew him. the family k
this has never happened before. as far as the helicopters, let s go through some of the explanations. over the last couple of days i talked to officials from nasa. they have the lab called the glen research center. they sometimes test rockets but say they haven t done any testing this week. a pentagon official said the faa hasn t been doing anything. one suggested maybe this is a helicopter, the lights you re seeing, or maybe a rescue helicopter from one of the hospitals, cleveland clinic. you re an emt, could that be possible? here is the thing. when we get helicopters coin, usually they are within the lake. when you get airplanes come in, that could be possible. the way we ve seen this helicopters, you can very clearly tell what s a helicopter, what s a plane and what these illuminations are. and they are very distinct. the light patterns are completely irregular and so bright. they don t contain the colors that you would see on a