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Pre-programmed waypoint changes of last week. we all reported. that turned out to be false. now the malaysians are getting the bad rap for that because everyone said they said it. but they put out the statement on saturday saying that the acars that after 1:07 nothing happened. we have to separate fact from myth from what we believe has been said. and the truth is at this point we have absolutely no idea officially what took place. >> to add on what richard said, this is an accident investigatio...

Satellites that go around and around, this is geo-stationary. it is locked in the indian ocean. this is the aircraft that uses the acars, now what that does it talk to the inmarsat. when it is a certain amount of miles it automatically defaults to sat com. like, for example, your wi-fi, it automatically locks onto verizon, that is the way it works. we know it was turned off. however, despite the fact it was turned out this satellite will send a little hand shake every hour to say hey, youre stil...

Is there not some kind of equivalent of a panic button that a pilot or co pilot can press that alerts the airline that somebody somewhere is a major problem. >> theres nine different panic buttons. >> is it feasible that they werent able to do any of that, shorter than an explosion which has blown this plane to pieces in a second, is it feasible that if it had been an accident of some kind none of them would have had time to alert anyone? >> the only thing i can think thats common to everything ...

The wrong route. we should be concentrating on the facts, getting back to whether the transponders and acars has been and focusing on that. this is pie in the sky. >> les? >> orchestrating something -- somebody is on the same route, it might be semiplausible. but the way this scenario was going out, there was a triangulation that had to get drbt airplane had to catch, just too much. >> before i go to mary, jeff is like, one more thing. >> yes. >> one thing i want to say, which is this, people ar...

Beijing. the 777 is carrying 239 people on board. one of the planes critical communication system called acars sends its final information. it sends it via satellite. we now know it shows the plane remained on course for beijing, contradicting earlier reports that the pilots programmed a change in the cockpit before sending their final transmission. a transcript from londons telegraph newspaper reveals there is nothing out of the ordinary nar in their communications with air traffic control. and...

>> to disable the acars system tharks is not easy. pilots who fly for 30 years are stumped on how they would disable the acar system. >> the evidence right now leads us to believe it was an intentional act. the question is, by who? did you get my e-mail? [ man ] i did. so, whatd you think of the house? did you see the school rating? oh, youre right. hey, babe, i got to go. bye, daddy. have a good day at school, okay? ♪

Of a electronic machine? >> i doubt it. 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, ...

>> there could be guidance from the plane itself. if its underwater, beacons attached to the voice recorders are still transmitting acoustic pulses or "pings." however -- >> at the end of 30 days, the batteries will be at the end of their design life. >> another form of guidance is acars. >> its a common piece of communication equipments on all planes. its that system that sends down a lot of information about how the engines are performing and how other systems are disablged.

We saw martin savidge navigating and going around and doing everything trying to get down, frantically trying to reduce altitude. it is an aggressive maneuver. what we saw on the radar returns was two-minute turn and remaining on heading for over an hour. >> go ahead. >> we need to try to zero in on the things that we can defend. and once you get the transponder an the acars turned off, now the airplane is free, except for that skin paint that the military radar can look at and the military rada...

Fi fish. >> arent we getting that today? are we not hearing from a source that it did descend to 12,000 feet? >> weve heard from a source. we also 4erd from a source that it was pre-programmed with new wave points 12 minutes before on the and i cars. a acars. and that proved to be incorrect. we heard that it flew at 12,000 feet. and that pruch edproved to be i. so i come back to the point that what we learned today was crucially important not only for the families and relatives of those on board...