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to that. so the manufacturer says you need to store them in a dry room temperature, 70 degrees, 85 at the most. so they got rid of these pingers, they put all new pingers in the refrigerator while he was there. now he tells me after that, that that process is not being followed. he s seen countless times those pingers back in those rooms. the concern could be that a pinger would be put on board one of these planes without the full life. exactly. and there s no way to test the battery life of these devices before putting them on the aircraft? no, at the c-check, which is every thousand hours, they do check them to see if it pings. which it would. but there s no way to test like put a load on it, like you would
that process is not being followed. he s seen countless times those pingers back in those rooms. the concern could be that a pinger would be put on board one of these planes without the full life. exactly. and there s no way to test the battery life of these devices before putting them on the aircraft? no, at the c-check, which is every thousand hours, they do check them to see if it pings. which it would. but there s no way to test like put a load on it, like you would test your car battery. so i m concerned that if these others were at half life, if one of those bad ones were put into this aircraft at the last check, it s possible it could be done by now. so the idea is it wouldn t even last the 30 days. david, the pingers weren t going
question? please. andy, it s richard quest here. this, the strength of data upon which the authorities are working on, never mind the landing aspect of it, just the strength of data that they believe proves this plane continued flying around, is it pings, is it hard satellite data? what s your understanding? my understanding at this point is that it s actually these pings that you refer to, which means that the system on board the aircraft is trying to get in contact with the satellite. it would have transmitted some data, but it doesn t transmit any data for some reason, it s not quite certain, not clear why. these repetitive attempts to reach a satellite and investigators believe that only an intact plane would do that. i want to add they re not suggesting this is the central theme of this investigation but the bottom line after almost a week of intensive searches is