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Stowed away and once youre in here, its a pandoras box. these are the circuit breakers for the radios, over here, and theres also, interestingly, some -- there are some other devices and oxygen bottles in the bay, which also people have talked about. >> the acars disabled after the "good night" was given? >> before. well, we dont really know. at 1:07 is the last official acars transmission. the next one should have been about half an hour later. it never happened. so they believe somewhere after...

Minutes. it was -- the reports being transmitted. so if you spend more money, you get to have more frequent acars transmissions. heres the problem -- these systems can be turned off. thats what happened in the case of mh 370. the acars system was turned off. and so part of this would be, you know, boosting up the amount of information thats broadcast. another part would be making sure its not turned off if you want to avoid this kind of situation again. >> so david, richard quest reporting that ...

Airlines flight 370 sparking new calls to improve air security by making it impossible to shut off a jets key safety system. suggestions include better protection of the voice and data recorders, making it practically impossible for anyone to cut power to these devices in mid-air, and possible expansion of real-time satellite tracking of practically all airliners. john, great to see you. lets break it down with the four systems that you did in your article. these are the systems that could be ta...

Very rare. i think its a great idea. >> we know in other instances it may have prevented this from happening. >> whether it actually caused the crash if you identify a safety risk, but it prevents the next crash. even if the pilot is innocent, down the road this may pay safety dividends. >> with the safety debates. when we talk about the cockpit, does that include the space below, for example, where the acars system is located? >> actually no. the cockpit is considered just to be the area that i...

Almost before the plane took off by malaysia airs decision, not to buy an app for their acars system. the aircraft was sold by boeing to malaysia air with a basic avionics suite that dont provide the upgrade that would have provided the same kind of information air france provided that would allow the investigators to within a week to at least know the area of the debris field theyre looking for. the thought that a jumbo jet -- that would allowed this stream of information. so all those pings th...

My humble opinion, if they are asking for help, we should provide it in spades. >> michael, you know better than anyone, the f acaa and similar organizations look for lessons from situations like this. >> right. >> what lessons should we be learning right now? >> just to go back to what michael said, quite frankly were putting the best resources in the world at a point in the investigation where we have very little hope of seeing any debris. lets go back to one lesson. remember when you talked a...

Turn off the transponder and the acars system. so i think it might advance it a little bit but you cant tell yet. >> one thing that becomes clear here, clearly this is intelligence, an evolving intelligence operation and they are working with imperfect data and they are adjusting as we go. and to explain to our viewer who is have to be frustrated with the constant false alarms. >> and theyve got the 30-day deadline with the pingers expiring if they havent already. they feel pressure to get one l...

Cockpit. you just turn the button, its off. the acars system is a little bit more complicated to turn that off. i dont know if you can do it from strictly sitting in the cockpit or if you have to leave the cockpit and go to the underbelly. how do you turn off the acars system? >> the only reason youd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit. you could turn off part of acars system. >> that would turn it off. >> the only reason youd be pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit by manual operati...

Ended up in this area? is that feasible? >> of course he could have disabled various systems. but to completely shut off the acars, he would have had to go back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment thats eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking ...

Turn much of with that evidence. >> so some -- presumably investigators have been looking into captain shahs background for weeks and weeks. no suicide note has come to line. no family strife. nothing from his flight simulator so far. so in your mintd, do you agree? do investigators know more than they are saying or are they in the wrong place? >> i think there is no -- >> oh, im sorry. >> there is no evidence that is shown that this captain was involved in anything nefarious, as you say. what w...