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. >> introducing new technology into a navigations system that has to track thousands of aircraft requires forethought and caution. >> reporter: the n.t.s.b. gathered experts to brainstorm better ways to attract plains. it was a time during which technology made major advancements. among the proposals upgraded tracking of planes in the air. imprinting of plane's locations on messages sent from the cockpit. extending the recording to 20 hours, up from one or two hours. increasing the battery life of the black box pinger and some aviation experts say the best way to find out what is happening on a plane - stream the black box data during the flight so valuable information doesn't go down during the plane. >> there's no reason with the technology we have today, that we can't have streaming data and it shows a lack of what it takes to do an underwater search. the difference between knowing whether the plane was airborne for one or two minutes, is the difference for searching for a month or two and a half. >> planes that crash on land are easier to locate it's the planes disappearing over ocean

. >> introducing new technology on an aircraft that carries threnld people300people or into a navigation system, requiring forethought and caution. >> experts to brainstorm better ways to track planes. i.t. was the first such conference in 15 years a time during which technology made major advancements. among proposals upgraded satellite tracking of planes in the area, instead of ising land based radio towers. extending the cockpit recording to 20 hours instead of one or two hours. and extending the life of the pinger, and stream all of the black box data during the flight so its valuable information doesn't go down with the plane. >> there's no reason with the technology we have today that we can't have streaming data from these aircraft. and it shows to me among other things a complete lack of what it takes to do an underwater search. the difference knowing whether the plane was airborne for a minute or two minutes is difference between searching for a week to a month and a half. >> planes that dpeash disappear over large swath of ocean the mh370 that disappeared in march. a painfully long se