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stowed away and once you re in here, it s a pandora s box. these are the circuit breakers for the radios, over here, and there s also, interestingly, some there are some other devices and oxygen bottles in the bay, which also people have talked about. the acars disabled after the good night was given? before. well, we don t really know. at 1:07 is the last official acars transmission. the next one should have been about half an hour later. it never happened. so they believe somewhere after 1:07 it was disabled. so, john, is there any reason why a pilot or someone from the flight crew would actually go down the stairs into this part of the plane? not in flight. although if they are capable of it, it s not normal for a pilot to go down into that compartment in flight. and miles, are all pilots trained to use this equipment? do pilots know how to disable this acars system, or is that something engineers and mechanics on a plane would do? no, this is in the realm of enginee
minutes. it was the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. here s the problem these systems can be turned off. that s what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information that s broadcast. another part would be making sure it s not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. so david, richard quest reporting that the streaming flight information is a recommendation in the malaysia preliminary report as far as the air france investigation. do you think the streaming black box technology will finally be implemented after this when people are seeing just how ridiculous it is? how long might that take if so? you know, thankfully there is enough coverage now where it might force regulation. the ntsb has been pushing this for a long time. they re not the regulatory authority.
mandate that it is a requirement. michael kaye, you know this, a former military pilot. you ve heard in brian s piece also about these self-ejecting black boxes which are found in some military plane already. is that an option that they that should be considered for commercial jets, do you think? i don t think it it is an option clearly that can be considered. i actually think in all this conversation, we re going from what we ve got now to the gold-plated option which is this live streaming through satcom. they re all interim technologies that have been rolled out three the fleet at the moment. one is the automatically survalent broadcast, adsb. the problem is, there s a single point of failure here. and jeff and david alluded to it earlier with the acars, it s actually the trans responder. the technologies at the moment rely on the transponder to either transmit or receive depending on adsb, what we ve got now, or what we ve got in the future. i think there s a relatively eas
circuitbreakers essentially cut off electricity to various system on the aircraft. in the case of fire or smoke. and ultimately in the case of the 777 and newer generation aircraft like the 787, the they are a bit more spread out on the aircraft. on the 777 in particular there are circuit breakers over the heads of the crew which control things like the radios and transrespond tran transponders but on the 787 it is different. with you but on the single-aisle aircraft that fly the medium and short-haul routes that are used to flying between, for example, washington, d.c. and chicago, the acars system, radios, voice recorder are all directly accessible on the flight deck behind the pilot s heads.