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In accordance with ako, as the organization, the international aviation organization, according with their regulations and it had been checked and rechecked. there is one small point conveniently overlooked by those that want to put the lithium ion battery argument forward. if they had been an incident, there would have been a warning. if there had been a warning, the pilots might have got a may day out. if there had been a full-scale fire, it would have been reported on the acars system and we ...

Fire suppression, a lot of safety mechanisms that go into those 191 issues that did mitigate the issue. so to think that tying this into this aircraft now -- the ones that have the accidents that have been caused by battery fires or any kind of cargo fire have resulted in significant damage to the aircraft, structural damage to the aircraft and subsequent crash. so -- and i dont suspect that here. obviously, because we have pings from that aircraft from hours and hours later. had there been a fi...

>> watching and waiting for that. let me follow-up for this. there two calls. no the to confusion everyone, but call reportedly made by the pilot before take off. eight minutes before take off from his cell phone. second report, there was a call a patiently made six minutes before all right good night when they were into the air and that happened at 1:19 in the morning. delivered by the cockpit. do we know more about that phone call? >> we dont. within this telegraph article that tells us they w...

One of those systems is the so-called acars system that weve heard a lot about in this investigation that allows the system to communicate with ground control. that was shut down on this aircraft. but you have managed -- your satellites managed to continue to communicate with the airplane anyway, how? >> okay, in very simple terms just like a cellular phone system if you imagine the satellite network, whoever you choose, the box on the plane, the classic arrow product from inmarsat, is the proje...

Have run it on the simulator ostensibly to then do it while theyre behind the -- in the cockpit. i think that investigators have loo-to-look at the human beings in this case. again, you either have physical evidence or youre going to have to find somebody who knows something that occurred. thats the only way to get to the bottom of what happened in this disappearance. >> shawn, yesterday we had a guest on the show whos a former fbi, very interesting theory that she laid out for us. roll that a l...

Thats a new development. that actually could play into the theory there was this spontaneous explosion and maybe thats why the acars system was left on. maybe it wasnt exploded. i still dont understand, bob, why, and this is what he said, why there was a deliberate turning off of the transponder. not once but twice. no mayday call, and that deliberate turn west after they said good night very calmly. that does not add up in the minds of pilots. >> the other thing that happened is they looked int...

So-called acars system that weve heard a lot about in this investigation that allows the system to communicate with ground control. that was shut down on this aircraft. but you have managed -- your satellites managed to continue to communicate with the airplane anyway, how? >> okay, in very simple terms just like a cellular phone system if you imagine the satellite network, whoever you choose, the box on the plane, the classic arrow product from inmarsat, is the project, and then there are vario...

Aircraft might be headed but also the point at which it would run out of fuel, right? >> exactly. let me take you back to the map here. youll notice at the center of the map here what we have here is a satellite. im going to draw a line out from that sat, and each one of these lines is equidistant from the satellite. so as the plane was sending data back and forth using whats known as the acars system, a passive system on board the aircraft that sends back bursts of data saying heres our p how o...

The same time their loved one is under suspicion. apparently, the investigators are citing or investigating as to whether or not anyone deliberately turned off the transponder, deliberately disabled the acars system, deliberately maneuvered the aircraft off route. >> reporter: aviation attorney michael verna said this case sun precedented. 13 days after vanishing, no side of the plane. >> ive been involved in virtually every commercial aviation accident in the world in the last 20 years and ive ...

The trouble with that decision, of course, would be if this doesnt turn out to be related to flight 370, well, then, theyd have made that move for all of the wrong reasons. >> right. >> reporter: the painful thing about this, chuck, theyve been waiting through all these days. now, they have to wait again. >> yeah, and wait and wait and wait. all right, keir simmons in kuala lumpur, thank you very much. i want to bring in aviation expert and former airline captain john cox along with nbc justic...