the world and across our country often. maybe also the turbulence. you can t see the turbulence. they have indicators of it. other planes threw the area. if it s a rapidly developing storm maybe they didn t know the turbulence. you could deal with lightning and icing on the wings. that s certain elevations with super cool drops of air. those are the possibilities of what they could have been dealing with. we won t know nshlofficially until we get the black box. for more let s try to bring in our newsnation experts john cox. a 30 year veteran with u.s. airways and safety board member katherine higgins. thank you for joining us. katherine, we re learning that the air asia plane was not fitted with a satellite
happen and when the plane hits the ground or the ocean, then all of that data would have been streamed because it would have, in this packet of information, given over the satellite communication system will be given a pre-emptive priority, it will go immediately. you ll have two things by the time the plane is in the water. you ll have a description of what went wrong in the plane, which is incredibly valuable to have and then you ll have the positioning. i went to the people in inmarsat who are responsible for the one thread of linking between loss of 370 and they explained to me how this technology is already available on any plane equipped with satellite, satcom connection. inmarsat systems are on 80% of the wide body fleet in the world but not on the narrow fleet.
aircraft to the reset itself. the cause of this partial ping could have several possible explanations but here s is what is significant in terms of this new development. they are saying human interaction with the satellite communication system has been ruled out. that is a significant development, richard. that means there was not a person at that point on that plane trying to re-establish communication. correct. it basically it s important for the negative, not the positive. it takes off the table the idea that there was somebody who was trying to re-establish communications. what it doesn t, of course, tell us is the circumstances of that partial ping. if that partial ping if the integrity is proved, then it s very significant because it adds another link in the chain. is an a layperson, miles, what i m saying is, it would seem to me if you have a failed log on, it wasn t a human, that would essentially if you could locate it, isn t that the same thing as saying that s where
directions, moving to the west and then really the next thing next event on this time line is 6:30 a.m. that s when the plane was supposed to land. and what happened between that last transmission and that scheduled arrival time, there is still so much mystery, it s really opaque the facts that happened during that period. what happened at 8:11 a.m. which is more than an hour and a half after that plane is supposed to have been landing in beijing. there is a communication notice here that there is a ping. what kind of ping? from what? well, the way this works is the plane has a satellite communication system. that is always on. and even after a, the system that sends information about the engine and sends other flight details and would have had very specific details, even after it was shut off, there was a handshake that went on with the satellite communication system. just saying every hour i m still here. i m still here we still have those records. that s how we know and found
west and then really the next thing next event on this time line is 6:30 a.m. that s when the plane was supposed to land. and what happened between that last transmission and that scheduled arrival time, there is still so much mystery, it s really opaque the facts that happened during that period. what happened at 8:11 a.m. which is more than an hour and a half after that plane is supposed to have been landing in beijing. there is a communication notice here that there is a ping. what kind of ping? from what? well, the way this works is the plane has a satellite communication system. that is always on. and even after a, the system that sends information about the engine and sends other flight details and would have had very specific details, even after it was shut off, there was a handshake that went on with the satellite communication system. just saying every hour i m still here. i m still here we still have those records. that s how we know and found out last wednesday night