Acars Switch News Today

>> this just shows the nature of this whole story. anything that i think you might raise an eyebrow is whats not there. if there was a fire, if there was an incident, if there was something happening mechanical in between when the acars switch stopped transmitting at 1:07 and we got the good night at 1:19 youd expect it to be in the transcript. its not there. so if by elimination and deduction of the negative we could perhaps say we can take something out of it. >> well, whatever theory you come...

Had said good night. so they were just responding in kind. >> and david, are you surprised that they wont release this officially at this point in the investigation? >> i dont think so. i dont think theres anything suspect in that at all. after thousands of hours of riding in the cockpit observing pilots, its typical conversation other than the translation errors that richard pointed out. >> youve got some guys who are probably letter of the law. >> absolutely. >> even a faa inspector over his b...