accurately where the aircraft entered the water, it is still a puzzle but not that difficult when you consider it against everything else that s going on. now, remember, the industry doesn t really have to equip every airplane with this technology that is available. and incidentally their technology has been available for quite some time. you go out and buy yourself a brand new 787 or 777 or a 737 even, you probably have all the wiring and all the equipment necessary onboard those airplanes when they re bought. now it s a matter of putting together the network on the ground to deal with this and handle these transmissions. it s again, money, and it s having the will to do it. is it easier in this case finding this plane because at least we know where it was or the time it was communication was cut off, their when the pilots ascended quickly for tried to versus the malaysian air that disappeared in march.
submarines. authorities are saying it s too early to come to conclusions about what the cause could be. white is a budget airline they have a very good safety record and the airplane involved airbus 320 a very good record. nothing is ruled out, even technical fault or foul play. the real focus is on the weather. finally, to the it is feared there are no survivors of this incident, nervous families of passengers are waiting for any kind of word. sadly, neil, that is a very familiar scene in the region. airasia is malaysia-based malaysia airline plane was shot down in july over ukraine and another plane lost, disappeared somewhere in the south indian ocean. rescuers obviously were hoping to find this plane a whole lot quicker. back to you. we do have ways of finding things as simple as our phones. why not the same for fining
another perhaps crucial day of searching for the missing asian eric flight number 8501. the aircraft took off from the nodan city of surabaya heading to singapore. the 162 onboard, mostly indonesian and british and french. apparently the pilots were encountering bad weather requesting the plane fly higher but due to other aircraft there ground control for that moment denied and it that might have made the difference. soon after radio and radar loss was lost. there was no may day call. authorities now saying the plane could be on the bottom of the sea there are dozens of ships and aircraft from several different countries in the recent john involved in the search for the plane. they re checking out oil and other debris found on the water. also asking for u.s. assistance and the u.s. today has said yes, it will help, and the late word we re getting from the pentagon it could include planes ships, maybe even
things like planes? aviation analyst jim tillman says it comes down to money. what do you mean? it does. like everything else neil. it s a matter of having the will to do and it the money to make it happen. there are so few of these incidents that the fact we have had a couple three of them in a row but there s so few of them and the cost is so high that neither the countries, the nations, our governments, nor the airline industry, have seen fit to do it. that might change. the argument you hear against it is that nothing would be detectable if a plane crashes deep into an ocean or water. they say that the technology that would be readily apparent and available for those planes that crash on land isn t as readily verifiable as those that crash in the water. well, if you know pretty
five to six thousand blacks are killed, not by racist white cops but by other blacks. that is a dialogue that is desperately needed within the minority community. this president was elect largely to try to create an environment where we could have that kind of open exchange of ideas and dialogue, and that has been one of his greatest failures. well put. good seeing you again my friend. thank you neil. take care. there is an app for finding your phone. why isn t there an app for finding a plane?