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Contribute to the struggle. the struggle is affecting all of us, period. baseball, dodgers and blue jays. new lakers star anthony davis on hand to throw out the first pitch. hey, ticked in, pretty easy to throw a strike. he got it right in there. now, in a funny moment in this one, cody ballenger slides head first into third base, and his pants come down. he was out. had a nice laugh afterwards. so that was funny. his belt didn t even break. they just fell down. fun night for the dodgers. they won big in that one, 16-3. the twins back at it again last night in minnesota. check him out. bottom of the fifth, goes right through max kepler s legs. it finds its way into the white sox dugout. a night earlier he was raining through the twins s dugout. he s got the right idea. if i was a squirrel i would live ....
that s right. they cannot be switched off? that s right. remember, these are designed not to go off in the case of a hard landing you remember the miracle on the hudson, when captain sullenburger landed he landed gently. and they didn t activate. so too gentle, too harsh, either way, the elt is isn t going to activate. this is the afn, the 777s have this aboard but boeing and the faa won t confirm this is that model. right. older models which don t send this information and have a higher failure rate. higher meaning what? as high as 50%. you re kidding. yes, you remember the case where steve fossett went missing, his elt didn t activate either. this is one of the questions ....
Lynn any. could a plane land so it didn t have the force on water so that the elt didn t send a signal? i doubt they are spending time on a theory like that. they will spend more time on what facts they have or don t have. it s possible. i don t think they have ruled anything out yet. that area as an oceanographer, we are looking at computer images, it looks like a big chunk of something. is that an area where there is a lot of trash? that s an area that s in what s called the southern indian gire, big sir could circular area in the ocean o. where we are looking at where you would expect to see debris concentrations. this is not the areas of the ocean where you get the most concentration because it s ....
all right, clarissa wants to know can it be coincidental that the elt just happened to be defective or malfunction on this particular plane? let me ask you, hank, since you flew the 777. we had four of them. i have only heard of one malfunction in the whole time i was with american airlines. so i don t think it s no, i don t think that s likely. you know, there is a lot of redundancy. hank, before you take off, are the procedures such that you check the elt if you have got an overseas flight? no. that s a maintenance function that s checked on a certain regular schedule. all right. they are all checked. we have got another tweet. tim asks why can we g.p.s. chip a pet and not have hidden g.p.s. tracking chips in planes that would allow it to be found anywhere? van, do you want that one? sure. so the answer is you need two week signal. there are plenty of g.p.s. signals on that aircraft. ....
That continues to grow. all right, clarissa wants to know can it be coincidental that the elt just happened to be defective or malfunction on this particular plane? let me ask you, hank, since you flew the 777. we had four of them. i have only heard of one malfunction in the whole time i was with american airlines. so i don t think it s no, i don t think that s likely. you know, there is a lot of redundancy. hank, before you take off, are the procedures such that you check the elt if you have got an overseas flight? no. that s a maintenance function that s checked on a certain regular schedule. all right. they are all checked. we have got another tweet. tim asks why can we g.p.s. chip a pet and not have hidden g.p.s. tracking chips in planes that would allow it to be found anywhere? van, do you want that one? sure. so the answer is you need two week signal. there are plenty of g.p.s. signals on that aircraft. ....