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more it s really those flight data recorders. it tells us so much, and it really pieces together so many questions we have at this hour. from the data recorders themselves we re going to learn about the plane s engines and the health of the plane itself. was there anything wrong with this plane from the cockpit data recorders. we ll also be able 20 hearto hear did the pilots say anything to each other, what kind of conversations were happening inside the cockpit. a lot of questions can be answered once we get our hands on those recorders. and c-130s are searching the water for now no sign of the planes. we have word on one of the ships headed to the area to search for the airplane. again, this is asia air, a very good safety record no frills airline. this is a tweet they put out. airasia indonesia regrets to confirm that qz 8501 from surabaya to singapore has lost
driver was caught on surveillance camera texting just before rear ending an suv. cameras are also keeping an eye on train conductors. and now the missing flight of 370 has reignited the debate of cameras in the cockpit. the amount of information they re deriving exceeds anything. reporter: cameras would be intrusive he says. why not put cameras in the cockpit of commercial airliners? i want the pilot worrying about flying the aircraft. and current technology allows you to monitor so many other parameters of the aircraft that it s not necessary. reporter: in 2000 the national transportation safety board recommended the federal aviation administration require airlines to record electronic images, data that would be included in two redundant cockpit data recorders, one in the front of the plane, another in the rear. but in the last 14 years that
from the aircraft exceeds anything from the other transport industries. reporter: mike karn of the coalition of airline pilots association says cameras would be intrusive. why not put cameras in the cockpit of commercial airliners? i want to pilot worried about flying the aircraft. the second thing is current technology allows you to monitor so many more parameters of the aircraft that it s not necessary. you re going to know the altitude, speed, configuration, everything mechanically about that aircraft. reporter: in 2000, the national transportation safety board recommended the federal aviation administration require airlines to record electronic images, data that would be included in two redundant cockpit data recorders, one in the front of the plane, another in the rear. but in the last 14 years, that recommendation has gone nowhere beyond being a suggestion. this information would be limited to accident investigation use and otherwise would not be available for viewing by
included in two cockpit data recorders, one the front of the plane, not the rear. in the last 14 years the recommendation has gone nowhere beyond being a suggestion. this information would be limited to accident investigation use. otherwise would not be available for viewing by anyone. jim haugh was chairman of the ntsb when the recommendation you made. after the investigation of several crashes found there wasn t enough cockpit data to determine what went wrong. the cameras would not be on the face of either of the pilot or the co-pilot. they would focus on the instruments and manipulations made. we see it edging more and more toward taking the privacy of the pilots. we are doing our job up there and i d rather focus on my job than what people are seeing. he says it higher priority