Clive Irving on CNN's American Morning,
June 9, 2009
Photo: CNN.com

Should the search for Air France Flight 447's flight data recorder in the middle of the Atlantic serve as a wake-up call for doing away with the so-called black box in favor of real-time data streaming?

Earlier today, Clive Irving, Condé Nast Traveler's senior consulting editor and aviation expert, appeared on CNN's American Morning to challenge the makers of flight recording technologies to adapt theirs to communications satellites already used for data streaming. Read the transcript from today's interview, then follow Clive's reporting on the investigation of the Flight 447 crash in The Daily Beast blog. 

Read Clive Irving's dispatches for The Daily Beast:
The Myth of the Black Box (June 7)
The Secrets of Flight 447 (June 6)
Who Was Flying Flight 447? (June 5)
Last Words of Flight 447: From a Robot (June 3)