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After 1:07 the acars system would have triggered the same tee vi device to communicate. >> more than seven hours between the last acars and then this final communication, or attempted communication. seven hours. that mystery what was going on for those seven hours in that aircraft. david gallo, how optimistic are you at this point? you co-led the search for air france flight 447. you confirmed debris after a couple of days, a few days. started to retrieve debris on day five. still took five year...

Were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. youve heard that suspicion as well. >> thats right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be l...

Handshake. the satellites had been making them at regular intervals with the flight for hours and hours, but at the very end, there was a partial handshake. what does that indicate to you? >> to me, its the most exciting piece of information weve had in a long time. that last ping, they had been regular intervals. then nine minutes after, it pings again. that tells me that the sat back in the back of the aircraft, top part of the aircraft, its sending out this signal. it talks with the satellite...

The cockpit voice recorder only records 30 minutes back. youre never going to hear what happened seven hours, three hours, five hours. and the flight data recorder records two hours back. you may get information about what systems were working and not, but i dont think youre ever going to get hard evidence of a deliberate act, and i think the indication is going to be that it was some type of a mechanical failure. >> the question i have goes back to this, how everything. were talking with captai...

How did it get there? who made it get there? then, you have what has been from day one, the criminal side runs parallel kind of just in case. did a pilot, did a member of the crew, did a passenger, somebody on the ground that services the aircraft, have something to do with this disappearance? really, not having the flight recorders, i dont know if we will ever know without those flight recorders. even if we get the flight recorders, the voice recorder, the cockpit voice recorder may have writte...

Plane on their radar. the indonesians say they never saw the plane on their radar. both of them may have missed it. but if you look at the map, and were showing whats going on, it sounds like maybe the crew was deliberately trying, if you believe the thai and the -- the thai radar experts and the indonesian radar experts, you may be convinced that the crew was deliberately trying to avoid radar. >> i think theres a lot of fantasy to something like that. i think if somebody wanted to deliberately...

Sometimes where they give to cut costs? >> maintenance, you agree with that. >> i agree with that, they did not subscribe to the entire acars situation, they made sure they saved money on those things. >> michael, i would argue after this incident we have to learn to at least be able to track any airplane in the sky at one point in time. is that one of the things we learned today here? >> yeah, i already think that system is in process, sean, there is a realization that that tracking needs to ge...

Function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we dont know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that takes specialized knowledge and it takes some deliberate key strokes into the computer system to disable its ability to transmit data. thats a deliberate act by...

Air crew of flight 370 was trying to bring the plane to safety. why do you believe that and what evidence is there to prove your theory? >> i felt all along that the air crew were getting the short end of the stick here, that i had a feeling that they were almost being framed by the way that the discoveries were being cast, as though they had intervened. i think theres a very plausible scenario here and i think its few days when we found out, for example, the acars was turned off after the last ...

Board. any engine failure. all the communications equipment was apparently turned off. you have five radios, the two transponders, to acars, the odds of that failing at the same time absent a catastrophic event has got to be very, very long. because boeing designs this airplane to be redundant and to separate the electronics so that you dont have a multiple failure at one time. >> and then on top of it the plane under this theory would have had to fly another five, six, seven hours crippled in t...